Overformatting your hard drive.

[360Man]

I recall reading how it was possible on some hard drives to over format them. Meaning some lower sized hard drives were actually larger ones but with some bad sectors etc locked out and you could unlock that area and possible get a lot more space out of the drive.

I have some older drives I would be willing to experiment with if anyone knows anything about this.

 

[Ste]

Bad sectors are ignored/locked for a reason.

You can always format a HD and see if they are fixed..

 

[Nissanspecv04]

yea there was a post about this about a week ago. The conclusion on that thread was probably not. search about a week back and it may give you some answers.

 

[Osiris]

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/ata_llfmt_what.html

 

[ITZBVAN005]

i never knew that was possible things you learn everyday

 

[HAVOC]

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