# Does anyone know how to

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**Created:** [April 2, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-know-how-to/85207 "2005-04-02T20:26:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jasninder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Jasninder](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jasninder)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-know-how-to/85207/1 "2005-04-02T20:26:54Z")

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wipe off the bad sectors from hard disk permanently??

its my 80 gigs hdd, it has developed 16 kb’s of bad sector, i have tried various things in past lik changing drive space, low level formatting using DM etc but they keep on coming back after few days…i can exchange it with a new one but taking a backup is a huge task, but i’v gota do what i’v gota do if there is no other way…id lik to try few things more before i really screw this drive so help me out…

thanks