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Curious though... why wouldn't the hard drive remap those sectors on its own when it encountered them? Not knowing much about hard drive mechanics, what would the difference be from that compared to writting zero'd data like you mentioned?


Well, it *will* remap them on its own the very next time you write something to those sectors. But it cannot do so until you write to them, because if it did then you might not know that the current contents have been corrupted..

Cheers


Edited by mlord (27/07/2006 22:50)