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Relocation on Windows XP  I know that bada sectors are like
virus and they spread and make my HDD die. But I want to know if
there any way of blocking or removing them temporarily or
permanently from an HDD, if there any software that does it.
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techie007, RedGrittyBrick, Dave Rook, Indrek, Dave M Sep 25 '12
at 12:59   1 Answer  up vote 1 down vote accepted  Bad sectors
are automatically ignored by your computer. You do not need
extra software for this. That said, if your harddrive has bad
sectors, don't store anything important on it. You'll likely
notice that the apparent size of your harddrive will decrease as
bad sectors are ignored. Depending on your OS, they might be
marked automatically or in the progress of being scanned by
something like chkdsk.  share|improve this answer add comment