If XP encounters an unrecoverable hardware-related I/O error on a drive,
does it mark that block (or whatever the smallest addressable chunk on
the disk might be) bad, so that it won't be allocated to another file in
the future?

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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com

"Bert Hyman" <bert@iphouse.com> wrote in message
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> If XP encounters an unrecoverable hardware-related I/O error on a drive,
> does it mark that block (or whatever the smallest addressable chunk on
> the disk might be) bad, so that it won't be allocated to another file in
> the future?

No, it does not. You must run chkdsk /f /r in order to mark bad blocks.

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>
> "Bert Hyman" <bert@iphouse.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns972F9F33EAC23VeebleFetzer@207.46.248.16...
>> If XP encounters an unrecoverable hardware-related I/O error on a
>> drive, does it mark that block (or whatever the smallest addressable
>> chunk on the disk might be) bad, so that it won't be allocated to
>> another file in the future?
>
> No, it does not. You must run chkdsk /f /r in order to mark bad blocks.

Thanks; thought so.

Seemed to work; hope it holds 'til the new drive gets here...

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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com