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Kbol
Hello, I have a hard disk with bad sectors. How can I use
windows xp to repair the bad sectors. Cheers.
windows xp to repair the bad sectors. Cheers.
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Jason Tsang
If your hard drive is still under warranty, I'd recommend you goto your hard
drive manufacturer's website and download their hard drive diagnostic
utility. Run a thorough scan, and it should find errors. With such an
error, it'll give you an error code from which you will likely have to
provide in order to get a warranty replacement. Since bad sectors could be
a sign of a failing disk, it's in your best interest to get the drive
replace especially if you still have the opportunity to.
If it isn't under warranty anymore, goto Start, Run and type "cmd"
Then at the prompt, type "chkdsk /r"
That should run a check to locate bad sectors and mark them as unusable. If
there is data on the unusable areas, chkdsk will try to recover that data
(but the data may be irretrievable).
drive manufacturer's website and download their hard drive diagnostic
utility. Run a thorough scan, and it should find errors. With such an
error, it'll give you an error code from which you will likely have to
provide in order to get a warranty replacement. Since bad sectors could be
a sign of a failing disk, it's in your best interest to get the drive
replace especially if you still have the opportunity to.
If it isn't under warranty anymore, goto Start, Run and type "cmd"
Then at the prompt, type "chkdsk /r"
That should run a check to locate bad sectors and mark them as unusable. If
there is data on the unusable areas, chkdsk will try to recover that data
(but the data may be irretrievable).
T
Tegger®
If your hard drive is still under warranty, I'd recommend you goto
your hard drive manufacturer's website and download their hard drive
diagnostic utility. Run a thorough scan, and it should find errors.
With such an error, it'll give you an error code from which you will
likely have to provide in order to get a warranty replacement. Since
bad sectors could be a sign of a failing disk, it's in your best
interest to get the drive replace especially if you still have the
opportunity to.
If it isn't under warranty anymore, goto Start, Run and type "cmd"
Then at the prompt, type "chkdsk /r"
That should run a check to locate bad sectors and mark them as
unusable. If there is data on the unusable areas, chkdsk will try to
recover that data (but the data may be irretrievable).
I wouldn't waste my time trying to rescue the disk.
These days "bad sectors" or "bad blocks" usually means the electronics are
dying, not that the platters are actually flawed. Replace it before you end
up with even more trouble, which is virtually guaranteed.
The old MFM and RLL hard drives normally had actual flaws in the platter
material which the controller couldn't find on its own, so they responded
well to low-level format utilities