Hard drives keep many "spare" sectors around and when it detects that a sector is bad or going bad, it remaps a "spare" good sector in it's place. All this happens without you knowing. Who knows what else your hard drive is doing behind your back...;-)
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Hard drives keep many "spare" sectors around and when it detects that a sector is bad or going bad, it remaps a "spare" good sector in it's place. All this happens without you knowing. ;-)
Who knows what else your hard drive is doing behind your back...