How do I fix a bad sector on my hard drive?

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Another option is try and find out who made the hard disk and get the diagnostic utility from that company. The hard disk vendors utility is probably the best resource for both finding disk errors and fixing them. I have used one that found a bad sector, told you what file the sector was in and offered to take the sector out of circulation (so to speak). You lost a single file rather than an entire disk.

Posted by: michael horowitz at December 13, 2004 12:28 PM

i have a bad sector in my hard disk
my hard disk capacity 40 gb but my computer show 8gb. I did de scan disk and this found 1.965 cluster bad now haw can the rapair it thnaks alot

Posted by: mahdi at February 6, 2005 10:36 PM

Scandisk should fix it.

Posted by: Leo at February 6, 2005 10:42 PM

Hellow!

I have some bade secotrs on my HDD. Can you help me by sending me some usfull software for removing the bade secotors from my hard disk.

I have a 40GB Maxtor Hard Disk
having about 5000 RPM

I will be waiting for your repply.

Thanks!

Posted by: Muhammad Adil at February 7, 2005 12:01 PM

Please read the article for suggestions.

Posted by: Leo at February 7, 2005 12:23 PM

I have seagate hard disk I have operated my computer for years now.The hard disk has developed some bad clusters.How can i fix them?

Posted by: Robert Shembilu at February 14, 2005 3:34 AM

All my suggestions are in the article you just commented on.

Posted by: Leo at February 14, 2005 9:36 AM

I have tried to run chkdsk /r several times on my computer and it will get to about 78% complete and then bounces back to only 50% complete. After it goes back to 50% it SLOWLY moves up a percent or 2 over many hours but never completes. Any suggestions or reasons why this is happening? From everything I have read it sounds like I am just s.o.l. and need a new hard drive. If this is the case, any suggestions on how I can salvage any of my data?

Posted by: Shayna at March 6, 2005 8:26 PM

I'd recommend rebooting in safe mode and running checkdsk again ... sounds like other programs might be interfering.

Posted by: Leo at March 6, 2005 8:59 PM

I used a software named PartitionMagic SE 6.0
(obtained from my motherboard cd).
It took about 3hrs to format my 40GB samsung hdd
but the results are good .There are no bad sectors now on my hdd.
(i.e. 0 out of 41 bad sectors)

Posted by: Anubhav Raikar at April 16, 2005 4:20 AM

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