how to recover bad sectors???????????????????????????????

[pratink]

i want to recover bad sectors in samsung as well as quantom fireball hdd
running winXP

[q3_abhi]

OOOoopss pratink, u have posted this question in wrong place. Mods, move it to Q&A.

I don think bad sectors can be recovered.

Some softwares can make the bad sectors to skip.

[shivaranjan.b]

Mods please move to Q&A section.

If it is logical bad sectors then you can recover but if it is physical bad sectors then you cannot remove them but prevent the os from writing in that section using surface scan.

Regards

[tarey_g]

bad sectors are physical damage to the disk drive , so can be repaired . but u can run a thorough scandisk on the drive which will mark the bad sectors on the drive to prevent further data loss.

if u want to sell the drive but don't want the buyer to know abt the bad sectors on the drive .... u can perform low level formatting on the drive. but if the drive is scanned again thoroughly it will show the info abt the bad sectors ion the drive.

[mohit]

To remove logical bad sectors try zero filling the drive using the utilities provided by your manufacturer. it will completely wipe your hdd clean but will take around 3-4 hours.

[cvvikram]

Yes u can try for thorough scan of harddisk ...which will rectify bad sectors upto some extent.

[paid]

You can try Hddregenerator but not free
http://mr-36251.mr.valuehost.co.uk/p...5843/hr151.exe

[koolbluez]

here's another doubter...
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29002

Anyway... the best & easiest way would be to SCANDISK the floppy(the more times the better) & then FULL FORMAT it...

This will nullify the bad sectors... rendering them unreadable... so they won't be taken into account when writing...

[rachitar]

Originally Posted by shivaranjan.b

Mods please move to Q&A section.

If it is logical bad sectors then you can recover but if it is physical bad sectors then you cannot remove them but prevent the os from writing in that section using surface scan.

Regards

Physical bad sector is when the sector is physically damaged on the HDD.
What is a logical bad sector?

[mohit]

@rachitar
logical bad sectors are created for instance ,when some virus attacks your pc and the OS is not able to write files on the hdd due to these bad sectors. these are logical bad sectors which can be cured by zero filling.