Thread: Low Level Formatting Tools
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Old 25-09-2011, 13:38   #6
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Re: Low Level Formatting Tools
Modern drives are built with spare sectors and the drive's firmware brings them into use as required and marks off bad sectors. If it's run out of spare sectors the drive is in a bad way and probably heading for a failure sometime soon.
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