Bad sectors - definite physical problem?

[xenon2050]

Well, if someone tried to use floppies to copy 700GBs of movies, well that is really sad... It'd be cheaper to buy a super computer... lol

[James_A]

I cannot resist as well, sorry.

In MY times, we would have used :

486,112 3.5" 1440 K floppies

583,334 5.25" 1200 K floppies

1,944,445 5.25" 360 K floppies

...

Well, if you supply the floppies, I still have drives to read each of those.

[jcarle]

Ironically, you can still install a 5.25" Floppy Drive into a modern PC. Who would have thought that a technology introduced in 1976 could still be installed in a PC 32 years later?

[xerces8]

You'd be surprised how much stuff from the seventies (and eighties) is still in every new PC

[weEvil]

P.S. 700GB is AFTER deleting all the stuff I can live without

If its not media files then compress it with 7zip or WinRAR.

You'd be surprised how much stuff from the seventies (and eighties) is still in every new PC

You mean like transistors, power cords... etc.

Edited November 29, 2008 by weEvil

[xerces8]

P.S. 700GB is AFTER deleting all the stuff I can live without

If its not media files then compress it with 7zip or WinRAR.

If there are only some bad sectors, overwriting them should do the trick.

MAYBE "chkdsk /r" does that.

Otherwise, if you can find out which file has the bad sectors, overwrite that file (you can not save it anyway). The simplest way to do that is to get a "secure erase" utility and "securely" erase the file (secure erasing is nothing else but overwriting it).

You'd be surprised how much stuff from the seventies (and eighties) is still in every new PC

You mean like transistors, power cords... etc.

No. ISA, gate A20, many ridiculous timers and many more, that will only make your head hurt