unable to format hard disk partition

[Shasta]

i have got bad sectors on drive c of my hard disk.

i tried quick format on the drive but the bad sectors are still there.

then tried a full format but it just stops in the middle.

what do i do now . is there a way out

plz tell in detail.

[Baroon]

use OEM tool for your hard drive to format and create partitions, whatever you like
For seagate drive, use Disk manager.Search for it at Seagate site

[QwertyManiac]

A format doesnt remove bad sectors if I am right

Originally Posted by Shasta

i have got bad sectors on drive c of my hard disk.

i tried quick format on the drive but the bad sectors are still there.

then tried a full format but it just stops in the middle.

what do i do now . is there a way out

plz tell in detail.

u can use ranish partiton manager.which is a dos based program(part.exe).Just google for it.

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

A format doesnt remove bad sectors if I am right

whats your age?

[Andyiz]

First Use HDDlife to find Life of ur Hard drive, if its satisfactory then use any partition manager and try and solve ur problem.

If the life is unsatisfactory then better go for the new one bcoz Formatting ur hard drive again will do no good to ur Life of ur Hard drive
and worsen the situation

[Sreekanth V]

Will scandisk eliminate some bad sectors? There is an option on it but I didn't used it since I didn't have any bad sectors.

[satbir]

scandisk only detects and marks ur bad sectors............. which means those paarticular sectors are discarded and are not used for reading/writing in future. the recovery options tries to copy the data present in those bad sectors to healthy sectors. scandisk won't remove the bad sectors. even formatting doesn't help much(i've heard that a low level format helps to some extent but i am not sure how to go round)........... bad sector is a bad sector and a disk with bad sectors is not reliable. time to get a new disk..........