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can create the invalid media error. Check the upcoming “Data Corruption”

section for the fix.

Most of the time, formatting is a slow, boring process. But sometimes the

drive makes “bad sounds” and you start seeing errors like the one shown in

Figure 9-59 at the top of the screen. Remember, an allocation unit is another

term for a block or cluster.

Figure 9-59 The “Trying to recover lost allocation unit” error

The drive has run across a bad cluster and is trying to fix it. For years, I’ve

told techs that seeing this error a few times doesn’t mean anything; every

drive comes with a few bad spots. This is no longer true. Modern drives hide

a significant number of extra blocks that they use to replace bad blocks

automatically. If a new drive gets a lot of “Trying to recover lost allocation

unit” errors, you can bet that the drive is dying and needs to be replaced. Get

the hard drive maker’s diagnostic tool to be sure. Bad clusters are reported by

S.M.A.R.T. (introduced in Chapter 8), one of several S.M.A.R.T. errors

possible.

Mental Reinstallation Focus on the fact that all of these errors share a

common thread—you just installed a drive! Installation errors don’t show up

on a system that has been running correctly for three weeks; they show up the

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