OLC Stock Answers Master Index 2. Computation Center Newsletters 5. With finals and term papers passing by, it is important to alleviate frustrations by taking care of your computer disks. There is nothing more frustrating than losing hours of hard work because of a bad disk.
Bad sectors are portions of the disk that can no longer save information.
When this happens, stop using the disk immediately. You should try to save your document on the hard drive of the machine you are working on and take the disk to the someone who can recover as much information as possible. Usually, each bad sector on a disk will remove a few lines of a word document. The most common reasons disks go bad are magnetic fields that come too close to the disk, sand that scratches the surface of the disk, static electricity, or an uneven coating of the disk at the factory. When one bad sector exists, it is likely that more will follow.