Daniel, > I reformated the whole HD yesterday with Linux fdisk and I had no issue > with 'sector 689088'. Anyway even if the sector on the HD was damaged (which > is possible), the format procedure should take care of that and quarantine > the sector.
However, if it really IS damaged then that means your hard drive's internal mechanisms for taking care of damaged sectors are starting to fail. Generally, if one knows there are bad sectors on one's hard drive, then the sooner one buys a new one, the better... DSL
