A bad sector is a section or portion on the hard disk that is permanently damaged and no longer be used to store data. Though, bad sectors develop on the hard disks due to physical/mechanical damage or manufacturing faults. However, you can repair/fix bad sectors on external hard drive by running the Error Checking utility or CHKDSK command.
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