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Sector reallocation in normal use

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Does windows automatically reallocate bad sectors while hdd is in normal use or only during a full format?
 
zalazin said:
Does windows automatically reallocate bad sectors while hdd is in normal use or only during a full format?
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The OS does not do this. The drive however does. Sector reallocations happen when writing or when a pending sector can finally be read successfully. Also when the drive has a non zero pending sector count it will in the background try to fix recover from the unreadable sector.
 
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