Does XP "bad spot" drives?

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Bert Hyman

If XP encounters an unrecoverable hardware-related I/O error on a drive,
does it mark that block (or whatever the smallest addressable chunk on
the disk might be) bad, so that it won't be allocated to another file in
the future?
 
Bert Hyman said:
If XP encounters an unrecoverable hardware-related I/O error on a drive,
does it mark that block (or whatever the smallest addressable chunk on
the disk might be) bad, so that it won't be allocated to another file in
the future?
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No, it does not. You must run chkdsk /f /r in order to mark bad blocks.
 
In "Pegasus \(MVP\)"
No, it does not. You must run chkdsk /f /r in order to mark bad blocks.
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Thanks; thought so.

Seemed to work; hope it holds 'til the new drive gets here...
 
My system hung on an app and I reset. Chkdsk showed 32k in Bad Sector. Does
this mean I have 32k of data in a bad sector or that I have 32k in bad
sectors? If I use the command that you show, if it is data, will it try to
move it to a good location? I recall y-e-a-r-s ago that Windows or Norton did
that. This is the first encounter I have had in many years, so I'm not up to
speed in this area.

Blessings!!
Don
 
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