Bad sectors on hard disks are marked by the operating system and bypassed. If data are recorded in a sector that becomes bad, file recovery software, and sometimes special hardware, must be used ...

While running the DiskPart on your computer, if you get an error saying DiskPart has encountered an error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check), here is how you can ...

Maintaining a spare sector per track to be used if another sector becomes defective. After detecting a bad write, the disk driver or controller writes the data into the spare sector and marks the ...