Bad sector problem

[ramprasad]

Hi all,

I have a P4, 1.6GHz, 512MB and 40GB Seagate HDD.

Not until recently, I came to find that, my HDD has some Bad sectors. Nearly 350KB in a C: and a few KB in H:

I tried, SeaTools. But to my vain, I was not able to recover or patch them up.

Can anyone suggest me, whether Low level formatting will work to patch up the Bad Sectors. ?

And also recommend a tool to patch up the same....


Regards,
Ramprasad

[digitizen]

check this article or tutorial . but dont try anything urself without necessaery knowledge , which will result in you messing up your hard disk .
check this article [http://www.ehow.com/how_113636_fix-sectors-hard.html][/url]

[dabster]

My Computer is 2 months old i.e. New But one Day My XP crashed and it gave BSOD with error that some c00008 {Registry File Failure} I googled and found a solution for that But Now I have a bad sector on my Harddisk that is of size 4KB equal to link or chain Size for that NTFS partition

What should I do get a replacement Harddisk or it is just Fine As whenever I format this drive, I will be able to recover it.....

[jack// ani]

How do I wash out bad sectors...so that they are not detected by scandisk or chkdsk???

[ramprasad]

Hi,

I have seen that the bad sectors keep on multiplying...

Initially, on one fine morning , I had only 144KB of Bad Sectors.
By the end of the day, I had arnd 300KB..

So it is not wise, to leave them as such.

Regards,
Ramprasad

[dabster]

You need to format that Particular Drive that's what I know,
is anybody knowing some other option....

[dabster]

You need to format that Particular Drive that's what I know,
is anybody knowing some other option....

[KoolFirE]

If you just want to "MARK" the Bad sectors so they wont be used the Thorough Scandisk (Windows 9x/ME) or chkdsk /r (Windows 2000/XP/2003).

But if you are looking for physically removing the bad sectors then Low Level Format is the only option. You can download the low level format utilities from the hard-Drive manufacturer's website.

[azhararmar]

Try SPFDISK for DOS coz it helps you even restore the Corrupted Partition Hopes these help you..
Download SPFDISK HERE http://spfdisk.sourceforge.net/
Read these:http://www.iceteks.com/articles.php/spfdiskreview/1

[legolas]

i presume u r not under warranty! i wud suggest u use "HDD regenerator". this is real good at fixing the bad sectors and recovering possible ones... but unfortunately its not freeware. its available in download.com. u cud try but.

/legolas