software for erasing bad sectors from pen drive

Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net
Tue Jun 27 08:01:15 UTC 2006


On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:26:44 +0530
Ankush Grover <ankush174 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any software available on Linux which can erase or block bad
> sectors on pen drive and hard disk ? 

I think that is commonly known as a screwdriver.

In other words, if the drive is going bad replace it before the whole thing
goes out and leaves you in a bad spot.

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