Method, system and computer program product for recovery of formatting in repair of bad sectors in disk drives
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1. A method for correcting a formatting error in a boot sector of a hard disk drive of a data processing system, said method comprising:
- discovering an error in a first formatting of a first hard disk drive of a data processing system;
extracting from a second hard disk drive of said data processing system storing second data a second formatting;
replacing said erroneous first formatting with a modification of said second formatting; and
storing first data in said first hard disk drive with said modification of said second formatting, wherein said first data is different from said second data.
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Abstract
A method for correcting a formatting error in a boot sector of a hard disk drive is disclosed. An error in a first formatting of a first hard disk drive is discovered, and a second formatting is extracted from a second hard disk drive storing second data. The erroneous first formatting is replaced with a modification of the second formatting, and first data is stored in the first hard disk drive with the modification of the second formatting. The first data is different from the second data.
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1. A method for correcting a formatting error in a boot sector of a hard disk drive of a data processing system, said method comprising:
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discovering an error in a first formatting of a first hard disk drive of a data processing system;
extracting from a second hard disk drive of said data processing system storing second data a second formatting;
replacing said erroneous first formatting with a modification of said second formatting; and
storing first data in said first hard disk drive with said modification of said second formatting, wherein said first data is different from said second data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system for correcting a formatting error in a boot sector of a hard disk drive of a data processing system, said system comprising:
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means for discovering an error in a first formatting of a first hard disk drive of a data processing system;
means for extracting from a second hard disk drive of said data processing system storing second data a second formatting;
means for replacing said erroneous first formatting with a modification of said second formatting; and
means for storing first data in said first hard disk drive with said modification of said second formatting, wherein said first data is different from said second data. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A machine-readable medium having a plurality of instructions processable by a machine embodied therein, wherein said plurality of instructions, when processed by said machine, causes said machine to perform a method for correcting a formatting error in a boot sector of a hard disk drive of a data processing system, comprising:
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discovering an error in a first formatting of a first hard disk drive of a data processing system;
extracting from a second hard disk drive of said data processing system storing second data a second formatting;
replacing said erroneous first formatting with a modification of said second formatting; and
storing first data in said first hard disk drive with said modification of said second formatting, wherein said first data is different from said second data. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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