Can somebody please fill me in on what "Bad Clusters" are? I have an external hard drive that has bad clusters on it. I have tried about everything I could think of to recover them, ran programs, re-formated the drive pulled the partition out and re-loaded everything and it still reads bad clusters are in there. I don't know why. It's an older Maxtor 120 GB drive and for the most part, I thought the drive was failing when it turned out to be that the power supply plug and the usb plugs were not securely seated. Right now the drive only has about 4 kb of bad clusters, it used to have more.
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Jump to PostThe data on a hard drive is broken down into sectors. When a small amount of data becomes corrupted, that area of the hard drive becomes unusable. When you format the drive (high level format) the bad clusters are not removed because the format simply knows to skip over the …
Jump to PostYour operating system will make sure not to write to any bad clusters on the disk, so there is no data loss as far as that is concerned. However, if a disk has bad clusters you can't get rid of, it inevitably means a physical problem with the drive itself. …
Jump to PostI have to use a lot of redundant back ups. I have a lot of stuff and CD's & DVD's just can't cut it. The terabyte of space is not one drive it is a a collection of 16 drives. One 120GB drive was the problem. But it's good to …
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