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11-14-2004, 02:43 PM	#1
linmix Senior Member Registered: Jun 2004 Location: Spain Distribution: FC5 Posts: 1,993 Blog Entries: 1 Rep:	BAd Blocks / Formatting Not sure whether this is the best place to ask, but... During installation of Slackware 10 I saw an opion to check for bad blocks during format. Suppose the program finds bad blocks. What happens to them? Do they get marked with a 'stay away' sign, would I be informed if bad blocks were found? Does it mean that if I have a hard drive which I know has a number of bad blocks and will make windoze crash everytime it writes to one I can still use this drive for a perfectly stable linux installation?

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