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Bad Sectors


Quite often, drives from which the data are to be recovered have bad sectors, or those sectors that are very hard, even impossible, to read, mostly due to hardware problems. R-Linux tries to read such sectors several times. The number of tries is specified either on the Settings/​Bad Sectors dialog box, or on the Properties tab, the Drive Control section, for each drive separately.

When R-Linux encounters such bad sectors while performing various tasks and they appear unreadable, it treats them as follows:

Object images:

R-Linux fills the space in the image file where the bad sectors should be with the pattern specified in the Pattern to fill bad blocks field on the Settings/​Bad Sectors dialog box. Please note that R-Linux writes the pattern on the image, not on the source drive.

Files

If Skip files with bad sectors on the Recovery dialog box is cleared, R-Linux fills bad sectors in the recovered file with the pattern specified on the the Settings/​Bad Sectors dialog box . Information about such files will appear in the Log .

If Skip files with bad sectors on the Recovery dialog box is selected, R-Linux skips files with bad sectors and displays their list on the Files with bad sectors dialog box when the recovery has been completed. You may select files to immediately recover them or to mark for later recovery. You may also save this list to a text file.

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Files with bad sectors dialog box

Click to expand/collapse Files with bad sectors Buttons

Select All

Click this button to select all files in the list.

Clear All

Click this button to unselect all selected files.

Mark

Click this button to mark all selected files in the list.

Save to File

Click this button to save the list of files with bad sectors to a text file.

Recover

Click this button to immediately recover selected files. The bad sectors in the recovered files will be filled with the pattern specified in the Pattern to fill bad blocks field on the Settings/​Bad Sectors dialog box.

Objects edited in the Text/​hexadecimal Viewer

Bad sectors in the objects viewed in the Text/​hexadecimal Viewer are shown as filled with the pattern specified in the Pattern to fill bad blocks field on the Settings/​Bad Sectors dialog box.

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