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Re: BAD CLUSTERS
From:
Jim Meagher <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - PC Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sun, 15 Feb 1998 17:47:10 -0500
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Guido wrote:
>
> If you xcopy the contents of one drive to another, and the drive being
> copied has bad clusters, is there a possibility that the contents of those
> bad clusters gets copied over too

If xcopy can not read the cluster, then it will halt with an error
message.  If the data inside the cluster is readable but scrambled
xcopy will merrily go on it's way copying the scrambled data.

Xcopy will not create a bad cluster, it can't.  It has no
formatting capabilities.  It is merely a duplicator.

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Jim Meagher
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