ok i've got an old quantum 3.2Gb HDD which has got a few bad sectors but windows 2000 will not successfully complete a NTFS format on the partition. I've tried to format it with fat32 and still the ...

I have some SAS spinning disks, and SSDs, that were in enterprise storage arrays. One characteristic they share is that they are formatted to 520 bytes per block rather than 512. In order to use them ...