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Fred Langa: “My 500 GB hard drive has one bad sector; what does that really mean?”

Posted on March 8, 2019 at 06:31 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

Short answer: Not a heckuvalot.

Yet another insightful piece from the master.

On Langa.com.

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Fred Langa’s real world advice: How to remove a bad hard disk sector

Posted on October 31, 2018 at 07:10 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Another school of hard knocks lesson from the master.

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