NTFS and bad sector marker

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Andrew Crook

can anyone tell me how the NTFS bad sector marker are stored in the filing
system and how I can find it for a particular sector?

Andrew
 
Andrew,

With NTFS, the $BadClus file contains this information. $BadClus is one of
the NTFS metadata files. It is not a file that you can see using Windows
Explorer.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows Storage Management/File System
 
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