Multiple choice

Defective sectors in a disk are called ______ blocks.

  1. bad

  2. good

  3. inconsistent

  4. none of these

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Explanation

Defective sectors on a storage medium, such as a hard disk, are commonly referred to as bad blocks or bad sectors. These areas are marked by the operating system so that they are not used for data storage.