Method, system and computer program product for recovery of formatting in repair of bad sectors in flash memory
US7480829B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 15, 2005 |
| Grant date | Jan 20, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 24, 2027 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/1666
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for correcting a formatting error in a flash memory is disclosed. An error in a first formatting of a first flash memory is discovered, and a second formatting is extracted from a second flash memory storing second data. The erroneous first formatting is replaced with a modification of the second formatting, and first data is stored in the first flash memory with the modification of the second formatting. The first data is different from the second data.
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