Bad Clusters (Was Re: Vista? Hello or goodbye?)

[Tony Scharf]

Yeah, I am with jay on this.  A used computer is likely to have a few
of these.. particularly on a laptop.

If you do a low level format (completely wipe the drive with knoppix,
then install whatever os you want) the system will handle these
clusters invisibly and you won't have to worry about them again.  Bad
clusters that show up on a running partition are different than
clusters that are safely ignored when the partition is created.

I recommend doing the complete wipe regardless.  After many os
installs, you will end up with a lot of weird crap in the partition
tables, mbr and elsewhere.  dd is your friend.



On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> wrote:
>> Just out of interest, why the full format? Because resizing partitions
>> on a drive with bad clusters is unlikely to work and/or may have
>> unpredictable results?
>
> No, so that the drives bad cluster table can be properly updated, and so you can discover any other new ones during the format as well.  I meant low-level format, btw, not this new-fangled "just updates the partition table to 0" thing ..
>
>> Or it's a full reinstall with WinXP and Linux I think, because I don't
>> think I can necessarily guarantee that I can reinstall Vista on here,
>> and I'm really not prepared to splash out on Win7.  (Seriously, I only
>> stopped using Win2k and switched to XP for music making about two
>> years ago - I am in no hurry for Win7, but might give Vista a try for
>> a bit longer if I can manage to keep it.)
>
>
> Way out of my league, I only use a Winblows product in a VM if I'm really, really, really sure there isn't some other way to do what I need to do. ;)
> ;
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