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From: harvid@gorm.ruc.dk (Hakan Arvidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Bad sectors
Keywords: Reformatting
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.121050.4532@gorm.ruc.dk>
Date: 18 Feb 91 12:10:50 GMT
Organization: Roskilde University, Denmark
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I have a Mirror removable harddrive, which gives me headache. When I try to optimize the disk with DiskExpress or Norton Speeddisk these programs reports a lot of bad sectors on the disk and says it needs to be reformatted. If I test the disk with Mirrors own software Media Manager it also reports bad blocks and advices me to reformat the disk.
Now the problem is that it is a hell of a job to move 40 meg of software back and forth, reformat the disk and then after a day or two find  new bad sectors. Sowhat I want to know is if there is a way to go around this bad sectors or to neutralize them in some smart way, without reformatting the whole disk.