Hard-drive errors

insignia33

So a bad sector (the software type) = the error correcting code for that sector doesnt match the data thats on it.

Lost cluster = a cluster thats marked as full even though its empty.

I dont understand how that can work? Does the "bad sector" technology not just automatically eliminate the idea of lost clusters?

I mean, would it not realise that these apparently full sectors/clusters dont match the EEC and thus then stamp it as bad.