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Old 07-21-2005, 11:21 PM   #1
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Question Bad sectors on laptop HD

Hi all!

I just purchased a second hand HD for a laptop and when I did a scan to chek for bad sectors it came back with about 800kb of bad sectors....can they be fixed? if so how can this be acheived?

Thanks for any help and suggestions you may be able to provide.
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Old 07-22-2005, 12:35 AM   #2
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Nope. You got a bad drive. They are only going to get worse.
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Old 07-22-2005, 12:41 AM   #3
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