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Bad sectors - definite physical problem?


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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.

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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.

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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 ;)

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