Questions tagged [sectors]
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Bad sectors in RAM, fixed or not?
So I have blocked some bad memory range from RAM memory.
My Question is the next one, I have done it right?
Here you have the info:
C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit /set badmemorylist 0xFC 0xFD 0xFE ...
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Getting a 4TB USB drive (4k native sector size) to work with Xen and Windows 2008 guest
I am trying to get a new 4TB Seagate USB drive to work with Xen 6.2 and a Windows 2008 R2 virtual guest.
The Xen host sees the drive fine, fdisk -l lists it with the correct capacity, etc. I can ...
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Could there be data loss on hard drive due to reallocated sectors?
The SMART data for one of my hard drives indicates that it has some reallocated sectors. I've read that a bad sector will only be reallocated on a write operation (meaning the original data is being ...
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Realocated Sector Count showing weird number
As can be seen on the screenshot below one of my hard drives is showing a weird count for sectors. Should I be worried about the disk dying? It's been running like this for four years. Could this be ...
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Request to allow restoration of HDD sectors image
I took apart my Creative Nomad Zen Xtra and opened the HDD up in HXD.exe then saved all the sectors to my d: drive so I could use the HDD for something else temporarily but then I realized I need ...
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Is it possible to EDIT/REMOVE the first sectors of a SDD/HDD?
Read This for the full story:
BitLocker Recovery Key Isn't working ( Corrupted Maybe ? )
the drive isn't encrypted yet
I mentioned that in my older post, and it appears to be correct the drive isn't ...
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What is the "write page" size of a WDS200T2B0A/WDS200T2B0B?
Does anyone know the write page¹ size of a Western Digital Blue SATA SSD (model numbers WDS200T2B0A or WDS200T2B0B)?
I contacted WD support and they're claiming it is 512B, but most information I've ...
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How to spot or match the specific sector of the DVD disc in the movie?
I've been checking the condition of DVD discs with VSO Inspector.
Most of time, it doesn't show any errors on the discs. However, when there's an error on a disc, sometimes it shows that there's an ...
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Do new USB flash drives use advanced format (AF)?
I just want to know if that new feature (AF - advanced format) on some hard drives, is present on flash (USB external disk) drives as well. I'm a little bit confused because a simple check on /dev/...
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Is it possible to find out which sectors are pending without full disk read?
I want to get a list of sectors that are reported as pending in the S.M.A.R.T. value 197 (С5) Current Pending Sector Count. Any chance to get it without resorting to a full surface scan?
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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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Cloning a 512 sector size to Advanced Format WD Black drive
I have a old WD Black drive that is not Advanced Format. Due to it having one bad sector in a unused area I need to clone it to a new hard drive to avoid losing data. Unfortunately the same model of ...
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Can a USB pen drive have sector size > 512 bytes?
Hard-disks, these days, can have sectors sized from 512 to 4096 bytes.
I would like to know if the same is also possible with USB removable storage media (flash drives, or pen drives).
Context: I ...
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Recover Bootable USB disk data
I have a bootable USB disk. There is a program in the USB disk for controlling a micro-controller. Yesterday my friend did a big mistake. He connected the disk to his laptop, and after creating backup ...
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GRUB: ELF sectors outside core
I just recently installed Xubuntu 12.04. Instantly after installing it I updated all my packages, however one package, grub-pc, failed to install. I'm not sure what caused it to fail, but here is the ...
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