B
Bazic
Hi.
My disk has some bad sectors which are stable during last half year. Most of
them are marked as bad (FAT32)
Under Win2000 I have permanent bad sector problems.
I need to scan my disk and mark all bad sectors and mark in addition few
preceding and following good sectors wchich may
become bad in the future. Due to quite big number of bad sectors it can't be
done manually. (I tried, but it costs a lot of time and patience: check
where is bad sector and then find proper mapping place inside FAT structure
and then mark.)
My problem is: during normal scandisk work some bad sectors are read
succesfully after few rerties (i guess: taken by diskcontroller or O.S.) and
they are NOT marked as bad.
Of course during normal operation (due to "Murphy laws") O.S. many times
encounterr "almost bad sector" and wastes more than 5 secs on retries.
I also tried format but effects are the same.
I need such a tool which scans surface and when encounters one (or two)
unsuccesful sector read - decides to mark this sector. (At this time I do
not care about data on that partition - I have backup)
My disk has some bad sectors which are stable during last half year. Most of
them are marked as bad (FAT32)
Under Win2000 I have permanent bad sector problems.
I need to scan my disk and mark all bad sectors and mark in addition few
preceding and following good sectors wchich may
become bad in the future. Due to quite big number of bad sectors it can't be
done manually. (I tried, but it costs a lot of time and patience: check
where is bad sector and then find proper mapping place inside FAT structure
and then mark.)
My problem is: during normal scandisk work some bad sectors are read
succesfully after few rerties (i guess: taken by diskcontroller or O.S.) and
they are NOT marked as bad.
Of course during normal operation (due to "Murphy laws") O.S. many times
encounterr "almost bad sector" and wastes more than 5 secs on retries.
I also tried format but effects are the same.
I need such a tool which scans surface and when encounters one (or two)
unsuccesful sector read - decides to mark this sector. (At this time I do
not care about data on that partition - I have backup)