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will reformatting my hard drive fix bad sectors on it?
assuming im not concerned with the data on it....
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Hello everyone
I have a hard disk with bad sectors on it. I want to partition the drive so that the partitions are in the good part of the hard disk, and the parts that have bad sectors are not used.
The first ~20GB of the hard disk are good. Then comes a ~13GB part that is riddled with bad sectors…
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I have a HP Pavilion dv6446 notebook. It had Windows Vista Home premium. After 4.5+ years of usage, just recently it started malfunctioning. While working fine, its screen goes white or sometimes some thin black lines horizontally. Laptop freezes. Hard reboot works.
Again it works for some 2 hrs or…
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A few nights ago I have created a backup of my data on an external 500 GB NTFS USB hard drive.
I have then formatted my computer, reinstalled Ubuntu and started transferring back the data from the external HDD.
Unfortunately some files have became corrupted and Ubuntu is unable to copy them over…
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Attempting to wipe the drive of a laptop that I have before it's sold, and normally use DBAN to do so. However this time it starts and then finishes instantly with the following message.
"DBAN finished with non-fatal errors
This is usually cause by disks with bad sectors"
Have tried multiple flags…
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I run check disk pretty regularly on my hard drive, and lately it's been saying that I have some bad sectores (66, to be exact). I've run smartctl and HD Tune. Both tell me that I have bad sectors and the drive is in "pre-fail" stage. The drive is only a couple of years old. How worried should I be…
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I like the way Visual studio (2008) format C# code; unfortunately it seems it doesn't behave in the same way when writing C++ code.
For example, when I write a code in this way:
class Test {
public:
int x;
Test() {this->x=20;}
~Test(){}
};
in C# (ok this is C++ but you can understand…
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All XSLT editors I've tried till now add tab or space characters to the XSLT to indent it for formatting. This is done even in places within the XSLT where these characters are significant to the XSLT processor.
XSLT modified for formatting in this way can produce output very different to that of…
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I have an Excel spreadsheet where I’d like to be able to create a “key” of formatted cells with unique values, and then in another sheet format cells using the key formatting.
So for example, my key is as follows, with one value per cell and the visual formatting indicated in parentheses:
A (red…
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In part 3 of the Globalize your Web Applications series, we'll be exploring PHP's I18N_Number and I18N_Currency classes, both of which are part of the I18N Libraries.
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Let’s see this with an example. I have the following html code on my page. Now if I format the document by selecting Edit –> Format document (or Ctrl K, Ctrl D) The document becomes I want the content inside td should remain on the same line Read More......(read more)
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