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Is a sector number determined forever?
If 'alpha' was a physical place on HDD occupying 1000th sector once,
is 'alpha' a place on HDD occupyig 1000th sector forever?
Forever means regardless of 'got bad sectors, low format, reset S.M.A....
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Remapping bad sectors from sectors not in the spare sector pool
For common flash controllers what happens when the spare-sector pool runs out and a bad-sector is found? Will a flash controller (any form factor) remap failing sectors to non-allocated sectors in the ...
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Wiping only part of a partition on an HDD
I have an HDD which has failed in my NAS, and which I want to return to the manufacturer. I want to remove the data first since I had not encrypted the drive. The drive is recognized by Windows and ...
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Unable to access 15 GB partition?
I have 250 GB HDD. I have created 5 partitions of it. Unfortunately, I am unable to format, delete, access my 5th partition which is of 15 GB. It says that it is Unallocated. If it is unallocated then ...
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Unable to Write Zeros to Bad Sectors/Hard Disk Not Counting Reallocated Sectors
I have a drive that is reporting that the current pending sectors is "45". I have used badblocks to identify the sectors and I have been trying to write zeros to them with dd.
From what I understand, ...
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Can prematurely powering down a computer cause bad sectors in a hard drive?
Q1: Can forcibly powering off a PC without using the built-in shutdown/reboot functions, cause a HDD to accumulate bad sectors? Whether it be the result of BSODs, lockups, crashes, etc.
Q2: If so, ...
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