Back setters in hard disk

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No there is not. Every hard disk has a few bad sectors. No perfect disk platter has ever been made. To allow for this there is the format process which finds them and maps them out of use. After that the disk should be good for some years unless it is damaged by impact or becomes faulty. So you don't need to worry about them. If your disk is getting an increasing number of bad sectors it is probably reaching the end of its life.

Best explanation of bad sectors i've seen in a long time...nicely done.

nicely done.

Thank you.

thank you guys....

What Salmon Trout said is true.

You can format the hard drive using your Windows system. Of course, any data will be virtually lost. Any bad sectors will be locked out and will not be used anymore. This is a built-in feature of modern hard drives.

Formatting a drive may take less than half an hour. The life expectancy of a drive is  beyond 8000 hours. It would take a lot of formatting to cut into the life of a good drive.

I did not make this up. The hard drive makers have literature on this subject. But thee are technicians out there that think their training is superior. Don't know where they come from.

But thee are technicians out there that think their training is superior. Don't know where they come from.

There are also people out there who call themselves "technicians" who are really just dabblers and card-swappers, who lie to potential customers to secure their money for doing very little. They come from the same place that all con-men and charlatans come from.