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Hi I'm wondering about the windows NTFS bad cluster file, $BadClus. It keeps a record of all the bad sectors on the hard disk. (Its a hidden file in the MFT).

If I reformat, I'm assuming this is recreated. Is that correct? in this case, doesn't that mean that the bad sectors are "freed up" again, in which case they could fail again?

I guess what I'm asking is how can I keep $BadClus between reformats?

Let me know if you can help,
Thanks
Mark

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