Bad Sectors Explained: Why Hard Drives Get Bad Sectors and What You Can Do About It

Bad Sectors Explained: Why Hard Drives Get Bad Sectors and What You Can Do About It: "A bad sector on a hard drive is simply a tiny cluster of storage space — a  sector — of the hard drive that appears to be defective. The sector won’t respond to read or write requests.

Bad sectors can occur on both traditional magnetic hard drives and modern solid-state drives. There are two types of bad sectors — one resulting from physical damage that can’t be repaired, and one resulting from software errors that can be fixed."

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