Comments for Can I repartition my hard disk to remove CRC errors?

Comment from Rafael Bastidas on 2010-12-18

2010-12-18T16:01:12Z

Ok, here's my question: Can I partition the drive to isolate the bad sectors on a partition that I won't use? What about the rest of the drive, will it be reliable? I won't be storing IMPORTANT data on it, but will I have to face the fact that sooner or later the drive will pass away?

The article you just commented on pretty clearly answers your first question. As for the implications on the rest of the drive or longevity, I don't think you can really infer anything unless you see new bad sectors continually appearing, in which case yes, I'd replace the drive.

18-Dec-2010

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Comment from Dan on 2010-03-10

2010-03-10T11:39:22Z

After a search for bad sectors is initiated and remapped, where is this information stored? Is it in the G-LIST of the hard drive's data or is it stored in the partition of the drive? I used Window's XP's Disk Error Checking application choosing the "Scan for and attempt to recover bad sectors".

My concern is that I had 9,737 bad sectors on a 250GB laptop hard drive which took over 24 hours to scan. If I repartition the drive for use in linux (change the partition from NTFS to EXT4) or to connect to a device that requires a different partition table (i.e. FAT32), will all those remapped bad sectors need to be scanned again and allocated to avoid read-write errors?

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Comment from Eddie on 2009-09-28

2009-09-28T10:56:13Z

I get this CRC error on a flask key I own .Would I be better of buying another key.I was using it to transfer info from 1 PC to another.

Yes. Flash drives, once they start showing errors, are almost never fixable.

28-Sep-2009

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Comment from Gary on 2009-09-22

2009-09-22T23:51:52Z

how can i easily save information from one computer to say a stand alone hard drive. information transfer?

Depends on your specifics. "Copy the files" is the short answer.

23-Sep-2009

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Comment from Tom Clark on 2009-09-22

2009-09-22T16:46:53Z

Spinrite has come through for me many times - in fact I now run it as a preventive measure about every six months. The money is well spent as the license belongs to you, and is not restricted to a single PC.

If Spinrite can not correct the CRC errors it will map around the area so that it is not available for use. Most commonly it will "fix" the error.

I have only ever had one drive on which Spinrite did not cure the issue - and someone else had "worked on it" before I was called in.

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Comment from JustInspired on 2009-09-22

2009-09-22T16:19:47Z

Being in the PC repair business I have found that once a drive starts developing bad sectors it is often a (bad) sign of things to come. Be prepared to have to replace the drive sooner or later and BACKUP, BACKUP and BACKUP!

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