05-08-2005, 11:44 PM
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Pharmaguru
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repair bad sectors
hi is there any way to repair bad sectors of hdd
please help.
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05-08-2005, 11:51 PM
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Wise Old Owl
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Your best bet is to do a
"chkdsk /f"
if u have xp and hope the bad sectors go away. For win98, do a scandisk with thorough option and "fix errors" option checked. Or u can go to your hard disk manufacturer's website and download a so-called 'low level formatting utility". It tries to remap the bad sectors to spare sectors on your hdd so that u won't be bothered by them any more.
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05-08-2005, 11:59 PM
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Wire muncher!
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there is no way to recover physical bad sectors. at most wot can be done is, as siriusb said, they can be remapped if there are spare sectors.
however try the scandisk thingy in the end after trying every other software, coz once scandisk marks certain sectors as bad nothing can be done without a lowlevel format. the markings are pretty strong and once marked you can be sure that no data will be written to those "marked" sectors.
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06-08-2005, 12:04 PM
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In The Zone
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Hi,
There is no way (atleast as far as I know) to recover the data in bad sectors. But u can patch them and prevent the OS from writing/using it again.
Try Seatools from Seagate.
Visit ur HDD manufacturer's website for getting the right S/W to patch it up..
I have used Seatools, it even worked perfect into a linux partition..
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Ramprasad
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06-08-2005, 02:13 PM
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Lemme tell u my experience...
When u have bad sectors... better Scandisk throughly(of course u might have done it already... then come to the conclusion of bad sectors 
Then full format the drive... This makes the system omit the bad sectors and think them to be 'not present'.
Thus, ur drive'll look free of bad sectors... most of these bad sectors'll be omitted...
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06-08-2005, 03:42 PM
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1)scandisk
2)chkdsk
3)windows defragmenter
4) peek time pro
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06-08-2005, 09:27 PM
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Yes, most of these softwares make those Bad sectors to skip or either use a spare sector(i don bout spare sector). Use may use a utility called DM- Disk Manager. These software is available for samsung,seagate,quantum.
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06-08-2005, 09:58 PM
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06-08-2005, 10:31 PM
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In The Zone
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cooltarun is right. I have recovered 575 kb of bad sector with it.
All software created bad sectors are recoverable.
Dont try to recover physical bad sector.
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06-08-2005, 10:44 PM
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Wise Old Owl
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I suggest that you read the entire hard disk reference in this page:
http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/
For info abput spare sectors and stuff, sjip over to here:
http://www.storagereview.com/guide20...matDefect.html
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