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Old 14th July 2008
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Newer drives (I guess about 2000 and later) already have spare sectors, if a sector goes bad, it uses a spare sector.

So if bad sectors show up, this means there are already a number of bad sectors, and the number will probably increase exponentially.

By the way, there are a number of disk checking tools on the Ultimate boot CD", which may be able to tell you a bit more about the status/health of your disk

This is a 750GB drive, which is probably rather new ... Most drives come with 4 or 5 years warranty, did you check if you still have warranty?

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Originally Posted by DrJ
Sorry, I've not tried it. FWIW, when I did this last, FreeBSD was on 5.2 or a 6 beta -- namely, back in the old days. Back then there were no good tools to locate and mark bad sectors.
Hm?

badsect(8)
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The badsect utility appeared in 4.1BSD.
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