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Hard-drive errors

insignia33 · 2013-09-15 09:23:57

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,…

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15-09-2013 10:23am

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insignia33

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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.

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