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Will reformatting my hard drive fix bad sectors on it?
assuming im not concerned with the data on it....
Started by devilHeroe on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Ideally with the cost of storage now, just replacing and using a new drive seems ideal... .
It wont "fix" bad sectors, but it should mark them as bad (unusable) and therefore no data would be written to those bad sectors.
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Hello. can anyone recommend me of a good free program to fix bad sectors on my hard drives? thanks
Started by ufk on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Bad sectors should be transparently mapped out using spareCan ....
But if you have bad sectors, it typically is a unrepairable issue.
Programs
If you hard drive truly has a bad sector, then try Tech Tool Pro v5.
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Hello,
I think my hard disk contains bad sectors and those bad sectors locate on the place where VM instance is, is there a tool that will allow me to fix those errors, or at least shift all the bad sectors from crucial point to the no so crucial place...
Started by Ngu Soon Hui on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
If the bad sectors correspond to unallocated sectors in your VM's virtual disk to entrust your ....
Run chkdsk c: /f /r
This will fix the filesystem, check for bad sectors and mark them as bad so to help you out.
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I have a main boot drive, plus 4 additional drives on my Fedora 11 machine. Palimpsest Disk Utility says 3 of the (non-boot) drives have bad sectors. How can I go about repairing these sectors? These drives currently have data on them I don't want to ...
Started by 99miles on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
There is a program called SpinRite that will try to recover as much .
A backup of everything you can as soon as possible, then use the only program I know of that can repair bad sectors - spinrite .
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Hi, everyone.
I've just installed the new version of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala, in my laptop. Everything is fine, except for the fact the system identified about 300 bad sectors in my 1TB external hard drive. I'd like to recover or just mark then. Is there...
Started by Adones Cunha on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
I recommend you consider migrating your data onto another is showing bad ....
There is no way of "recovering" bad sectors.
Rerun it occasionally anyway, in case there are any "almost bad" sectors that degrade further.
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So i'm helping someone with a hard drive problem. And i've had only a modicum of success...
First off, it's a 160 GB HD, and it (originally) had a non-bootable 5GB FAT partition for Recovery, followed by the main bootable NTFS partition.
In trying to ...
Started by cyphen on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at techimo):
BAD sectors, bad;Chuckiechan</strong> <a href="http://www.techimo.com/forum/storage-related/194292-bad-sectors-bad-partition-info-....
It's probably too late now to tell him to Format: /c.. .
Boot records! Crap.
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I have an external HDD that is starting to fail, it has some bad sectors. It's a 1TB fujitsu siemens case with a western digital HDD inside.
Eventually I will backup the whole drive with some backup/imaging software. But atm i dont have the free space...
Started by Emile 81 on
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I have used it successfully.
From disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data, recovering bad sectors, (like the dd command) to another hard drive.
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Hard disk bad sectors. guys today i ran ubuntu 11.04 live cd and checked my samsung spinpoint F3(HD 103SJ) 1 TB HDD.it is showing some bad sectors in it.gpart showed that there are about 607 bad sectors in one partition.so is it possible to recover those...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at thinkdigit):
I've ran a HDD with bad sector think you can....
Re: Hard disk bad sectors.
So better to get it RMA'd before OS becomes unstable .
sectors but from what i have read here, bad sector will continue to increase.
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Laptop hard drive works just fine except there are bad sectors in the first partition of the drive. System won't read past that boot to boot up. Is it possible to exclude these sectors so that I could use the drive again? Even if I had to exclude the ...
Started by MustISO on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at anandtech):
By the time a modern drive with defect re-mapping 'presents' bad sectors to the user, the damage RMA it.
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Hi I have been messages just before windows loads telling me that my H drive (2TB WD black drive) has problems and wants to scan the drive.
So I downloaded a program called Hard Disk Sentinel and it tells me that the H drive has 289 bad sectors and I ...
Started by garry on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at overclockers):
0 reallocated sectors (ie a bad sector the drive has remapped) and 0 pending (will remap on next physical....
I use it at work.
To test for bad sectors.
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