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Glenn Ervin at Home wrote:
> Why not just do a scandisk and fix the errors?

Scandisk can't fix bad sectors. All it can do is to prevent the file
system from using them. A new hard disk shouldn't have sector errors in
the first place.

(Or have I just been lucky to never have seen sector errors at all on
any of my hard disks? Anyone?)

Linus
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