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A drive with bad sectors may usually continue to be used.

If there is a bad sector, the computer will in effect block it off.

Enough bad sectors and there is no around to route.

They were responsible for one of the worst sectors in Iraq at the time.

This usually appeared to work (sometimes reporting a small number of bad sectors) - at least for a time.

Once the drive was slowed down the application could then go and write "bad sectors" where needed.

Another data hiding technique involves the use of bad sectors.

Most drives usually leave their manufacturers with bad sectors, but they are not numerous enough to cause problems.

After formatting, the computer will indicate whether there are bad sectors.

These bad sectors cannot be recovered by formatting the media.

If verification fails, due to bad sectors, then the drive should be destroyed.

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It can also scan for physical defects known as bad sectors and isolate them.

Bad sectors, however, may be invisible to the host system and thus to the erasing software.

She chewed, staring into the window of this Bad Sector place.

When using sector slipping for bad sectors, disk access time is not largely affected.

Data recovery imaging must have the ability to read data from "bad sectors."

Bad sectors cannot usually be overwritten, but may contain recoverable information.

Special copy programs were available that would copy the disk and remember any bad sectors.

Bad sectors can be caused by bumping or banging the disk, and all hard drives usually have some.

Have you done a scan to see if you have any bad sectors?

On Atari 8-bit computers, the most common protection method was via "bad sectors".

The bad sectors are then mapped and a sector slipping algorithm is utilized.

Infected disks usually have five kilobytes of bad sectors.

Internal hard-drive defect management is a system present in hard drives for handling of bad sectors.