Bad Sectors on Hard Drive Question - Quarantining?
My question is this: If I hang on to the problem files on the problem part of the HD where on earth they are, don't move them or trash them, will this in effect "quarantine" these bleak sectors, preventing me from accidentally writing anything over them again?
I know near are programs that will "quarantine" bad sector. but will going it alone, under the circumstances described, enjoy a similar, if less precise, effect?
Answer:
If you own data on that drive... STOP NOW. Turn it bad.
A drive that's clicking is just give or take a few dead. Get to a tech and consent to them ghost the drive to another rugged drive before you are incompetent to access it.
If your computer is running a Microsoft operating system, first try CHKDSK /R. This will attempt to find and fix the bad sector.
I would suggest that what you are asking about is instrument too risky...who knows where on earth your memory wants to stop, and there comes a time when you must defrag...this is simply factor of computer maintenance and you nouns like a "hardcorer" so should be done once a week. HD are cheap as chips...do a defrag..see the results and jump from there.
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