More life from hard disk with bad sectors

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Hi All

One of my hard disks continued to develop bad sectors and every time I
was using format to mark the bad sectors. Suddenly I got an idea of
not only marking the bad sector but also keeping the head from
accessing areas around the bad sector.

By the time I did this to my hard disks it had only 1 gb of its 2 gb
capacity usable. (You can imagine the number of bad sectors!).

The bad sectors developed during a three month period. After marking
the areas so the read head did not go anywhere near the bad sectors I
have been using this hard disk for more than two years without any new
bad sector appearing!

You can read my experience here

http://members.tripod.com/~diligent/ninelives.htm

HTH

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Sandy Archer
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