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Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother

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Harry S Robins wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:20:23 -0400, ...winston wrote:
> 
>>>> You would buy an SD card with static and dynamic wear leveling.
>>>>
>>>> A quick format is good enough. It writes and puts a FAT or $MFT on 
>>>> the partition.
>>>>
>>>> The slow format does the same, except it includes a read-verify of 
>>>> the surface.
>>>
>>> Doesn't it fill everything with zeroes as well? Or erase all sectors? 
>>> That reduces the life of the card or stick.
>>> Writing zeros for full format option was introduced with Vista. 
>> Applicable also to all later Windows o/s.
>> Full format
>>   - files erased
>>   - writes zeros to the whole disk
>>   - drive scanned for bad sectors(does not fix bad sectors)
>>   - new root directory and file system
> 
> If a Windows full format doesn't fix bad sectors, what does it do to them?
> 
> I always thought a format put a "jumper" so that bad sectors were ignored.
> 
> Is that "jumper" (or whatever it's really called) considered a fix?
> Or is a fix something else?

Marks as bad, isolating from future use.
  - marking as bad and ignored in the future, is not a 'fixing bad 
sector' condition.
  => If its bad, it remains bad and prevented for future use.

Chkdisk, another tool, doesn't necessarily fix bad sectors either. Ymmv 
with use.
  - the most likely end result, is recovering any possible data found in 
a bad sector, move to a known good sector, then mark bad sector from 
future use.

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Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-23 21:54 +0000
  Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-24 03:20 -0400
    Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-10-24 16:12 +0200
      Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2024-10-24 13:20 -0400
        Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Harry S Robins <stanleyrobins@nothere.uk> - 2024-10-24 13:00 -0500
          Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2024-10-24 14:12 -0400
          Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-10-26 12:10 +0200
            Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-10-26 15:56 +0200
            Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-26 14:09 -0400
              Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-10-28 16:53 +0100
                Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-11-01 09:19 +0100
        Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-24 14:33 -0400
    Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-24 17:15 +0000
      Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-24 14:42 -0400
  Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-24 17:35 +0000
    Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2024-10-24 14:35 -0400
  Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-25 18:41 +0000
  Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-01 06:26 +0000
    Re: Using Windows to make Android smoother Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-01 13:56 +0000

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