going around bad sectors

[whiplash]

Im a lil rusty in d ole bad sectors dept. so here goes ..Can a format(not quick format)
do anything for bad sectors.Dosnt a new file system mark the bad sectors as "bad" and dosnt allow the system to save dada in that part of the hard drive. The harddrive is an old 80gig. i remember in the win98 day u had to partition off the hDD with bad sectors. correct me if im wrong

oh can gears of war run at all on my system??
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[Nephilim]

bad sectors = time to start considering a replacement.

other than that

chkdsk <driver_letter>: /r

Should rid you of any minor bad sector errors and recover data from them.
Short of that yuh might have to look into some commercial app

[W1nTry]

First question, a format in many cases WON'T get rid of bad sectors, if it cannot be repaired during boot up or via the OS/Bios tools then no amt of formating is going to help.

Secondly, I think it should because it's built on the fantastic Unreal 3 engine which was built from the ground up to run on DX9 hardware first and foremost. I have a X1900XT and the Unreal 3 demo was VERY playable on my machine. By playable I mean I got a little jitter now and again running at 1280x1024 with all the eye candy. Granted I have a dual core cpu, and an XT not GT, but my card is 256MB and I doubt the clock difference will be enough to make it unplayable. You should be MORE than fine.

[Eroo]

bad sectors = time to start considering a replacement.

Totally agree. You really should start to look to move your data onto a next drive now. Generally from when you start getting bad sectors it means you going to get more and more till they drive goes completely.

[whiplash]

I know i have to get one maybe monday.Lota technicans in here boi thanks fellas for your opinions

[Wa_DoDem]

TRY SPIN RITE A OLD SKOOL SOFTWARE THAT OWNS STILL TDAY