On 28 January 2012 20:29, Andy Smith <a...@bitfolk.com> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 08:00:10PM +0000, thegeeksquad...@ymail.com wrote: >> Just curious to know this, as I don't format disks too often, but does >> formatting a HD rid it of any bad sectors? I assume not, but I'm a tad >> perplexed! > > Not as such. Also it depends what you mean by "format". By "format", > most people mean just creating a partition table. This doesn't write > to the whole disk, so can't actually do anything to (most of) the > disk.
Hmm. I've not knowingly met that usage, but I will remember that as a warning! > If you try to write a bad sector on a modern disk then it will > usually remap that sector to one from its pool of spare sectors. > That has the appearance of "fixing" the sector. It's normal for this > to happen very rarely over the whole life of the drive. > > When there is serious damage to the mechanism of the drive, the > errors can come in a flood and deplete all the spare sectors > quickly, which is why it's important to replace a drive when the > remapped sectors count keeps going up. Yep, WHS. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
