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Offline motorollin

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Re: HD has been wiped out..
« on: July 07, 2007, 01:43:59 PM »
Sounds like a bad sector on the disk. I would replace the hard disk.

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Re: HD has been wiped out..
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2007, 04:08:13 PM »
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Merc wrote:
the manufacturer information is (AFAIK) stored on the board and shouldn't ever be corrupted no matter how many bad sectors the drive has.

That's not necessarily true. Some (usually old) disks lose the manufacturer/geometry information if you low level format the disk, meaning the information is stored as data on the disk.

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