Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I deal with this? If anyone knows of a tool to re-format just > 8 sectors (to let the disk re-map the blocks elsewhere), that also > would be helpful.
Manufacturers may have these tools, but some do a full low-level format. Usually, writing the bad blocks will make the drive remap them if it has spare sectors left to remap to. -- Matthias Andree