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but then, I would never use a disk I knew to be faulty for a fresh installation, so ....
– Lasse V. Karlsen
Commented Jul 15, 2009 at 13:32
In other words, there's no point to spending extra time scanning for bad sectors at format time, because the OS has to do that on reads/writes anyway. You don't save any work later, and you get nothing now because even if it finds a bunch of bad sectors you didn't already know about it will still just mark them bad and move on.
– Joel Coehoorn
Commented Feb 17, 2011 at 20:06

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