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Hard-drive errors

  • 15-09-2013 10:23AM
    #1
    insignia33
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭


    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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