Method, system and computer program product for recovery of formatting in repair of bad sectors in disk drives
US7475278B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 15, 2005 |
| Grant date | Jan 6, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 23, 2026 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/1435
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for correcting a formatting error in a boot sector of a hard disk drive is disclosed. An error in a first formatting of a first hard disk drive is discovered, and a second formatting is extracted from a second hard disk drive storing second data. The erroneous first formatting is replaced with a modification of the second formatting, and first data is stored in the first hard disk drive with the modification of the second formatting. The first data is different from the second data.
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