Recover & Repair bad sectors in the Service Area

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ShadowMeow

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Nov 3, 2023
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Recover & Repair bad sectors in the Service Area. :cool:

If you can pull this off, would make a great addition to SR v7.
 
The Service Area, also known as the Engineering Cylinder, was just the very end of the drive that always remained unpartitioned. Once upon a time, SpinRite did its work out there because it was "data safe". That's where it would experiment with different sector interleave factors to find the best, and perform other confidence testing. Today's drives simply present a contiguous linear run of sectors and the notion of such reserved region has disappeared. (Though it's still very often the case for historical reasons that partitions do not extend ALL the way to the very end of the drive.)