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GerryD
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_ 		19. July 2005 @ 05:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Probably a stupid question I have an old 20Gig HD with some bad sectors that I removed from my PC in exchange for a 80Gig HD I was wondering if I reformatted could I use the 20Gig to boost my mother's PC as she's nearly used half of her 20Gig HD
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Xian
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_ 		19. July 2005 @ 07:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If the drive has bad sectors, a format will not help it. It will mark those sectors as unusable and you can still use the drive, but you are asking for trouble later in my opinion. It's been my experience that once a drive starts to fail and has bad or unreadable sectors it is on the way out and I sure wouldn't trust it to store my data on.
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ddp
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_ 		19. July 2005 @ 07:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
are the bad spots physical damage to the drive or software corruption that shows bad spots that aren't really there. a customer had a 40gig with 2.5 meg bad in sectors. did a low level than a normal format & drive is all right
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GerryD
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_ 		21. July 2005 @ 04:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Cheers guy's Ithought as much it's of no use lying about doing nothing it was just a thought I'm going to try and off load it to somebody that might be able to do something with it and maybe get an upgrade for the PC
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