Bad Sectors

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by LI_Geek_95, Jan 20, 2010.

  1. LI_Geek_95

    LI_Geek_95 Post-and-Run Geek

    I'm working on a friend of mine's laptop. It has 5 bad sectors (a brand new dell =O )
    Anyway! I read somewhere that you can configure those to be ingored, since they are non-fixable. How could this be done?
     
    LI_Geek_95, Jan 20, 2010
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  2. collinsl

    collinsl MajorGeek

    If the laptop is brand new and it has bad sectors then it is likely that the hard drive is duff and it will probably fail soon.

    I would therefore recommend returning the laptop.

    If you decide not to, then nearly all modern hard drives will keep a sector table and ignore bad ones by themselves.
     
    collinsl, Jan 21, 2010
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