jludwig wrote: > Newer drive automatically replace bad sectors with spares that are > included on the drive. But they only do this when you WRITE to the sector. You don't want the middle of an important file to be silently replaced by zeros. > If you are seeing bad sectors this means one of two issues. > > 1) A virus (not likely) > > 2) Drive failure. > 3) You need to force the filesystem to re-write the file in question. (Sometimes, this is easier said than done, I know). > If the drive is failing get your data off now (only allow the drive to > run - spin up - while removing data). Well, that's always good advice with a suspect drive... James. -- E-mail address: james | actor: (n) a piece of scenery that has the audacity @westexe.demon.co.uk | to move once lit.
