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Comment from Nambahu on 2008-08-18

2008-08-18T09:49:50Z

i have this 2,5" seagate hard drive and i was trying to format it so that i can install xp on it. the format never completed cuz somwhere towards the end it says bad sector. i put the hard drive in a case and docking station and connected it the the desktop. same thing happened. i put in in anothter cooputere and same thig happened. should i take it in for repairs or should i format it witha boot disk? i even used partion magic to format it and it still wo'nt complete. it now says 0 bytes and it iei registered as a bad disk in partion magic. what should i do?

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Comment from Suharick on 2008-07-28

2008-07-28T13:46:30Z

Hello!
My computer completely broke down, because it says that i have a hard drive problem, and when i try to reformat windows,it says that cant cuz i have bad sectors on my hard drive.
P.S. I cant even log in to run command prompt

Yep, sounds like a hard disk gone or going bad. You may be able to recover it with product like SpinRite (http://grc.com/spinrite), or you may need to replace the hard drive.

Good luck!

-Leo

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Comment from R.syed riyaz ahmed on 2008-07-16

2008-07-17T06:59:45Z

I have a problem in My outlook,when i trasfered my data to server,after completing 60% showing "cyclic reduncy error" please how can i trasfer my data into server.

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Comment from Anirban on 2008-07-06

2008-07-06T10:02:44Z

While Installing Linux(CentOs,Fedora)..in the time of disk checking it founds hdd error..but i formatted & installed Windows Xp several times..and doesn't face any problem..If you give me a solution i will be grateful to you..

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Comment from Jose on 2008-07-03

2008-07-03T19:50:44Z

Hi
Im trying to fix my hard drive from bad sectors but when I try to fix it on startup its starts to check and then it says it has encounterd and error and stops working. Help me please.

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Comment from justin marcus on 2008-06-25

2008-06-26T05:59:38Z

try to change system from ntfs to fat system and vice versa,

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Comment from Jose on 2008-06-23

2008-06-24T02:04:15Z

Hello
I am using a 500gb Seagate hard disk. I don't want to lose anything but if I have to I will. I'm pretty sure it has bad sectors and I can't install Windows again.(Vista) It won't find it. It finds it in the start up, like the page that is black and has white words but when I try to install a clean copy it can't find the hard drive. What could I do? Please help me.

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Comment from premchander on 2008-06-09

2008-06-10T01:21:37Z

hello sir,
iam using 40gb seagate harddisk it was detecting but when iam installing windows xp it was not displaying the any hard drives y..........
plz reply me sir.....

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Comment from Zoroufi on 2008-06-09

2008-06-09T23:16:58Z

Dear All,
I have an IDE hard drive; recently the windows alert me that there are some bad sectors in your hard drive and you need to fix the problem.
I went and buy a new HDD to replace and copy all information from the older to the newer.
Unfortunately after starting the PC I saw that the computer did not recognize my OLD storage.
I hear some noise for awhile after starting the computer from inside of hard and the noise stops.
Somebody offers me to recover my data by paying considerable money payment.
Has somebody encountered with similar problem?
Could you guide me how can I handle this problem probably using software solutions?

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Comment from Melina Putri on 2008-06-01

2008-06-01T19:25:33Z

I have 3 Seagate drives,
The first hard drive is where I installed Windows since six years ago, it never had bad sectors problem.

The second and the third I bought 1 years ago.
The second now has 173 bad sectors but the third is ok.

The really weird thing is I don't have any bad sectors in my second hard drive even it is has 173 bad sectors.

I wonder what causing it?

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Comment from raja on 2008-05-24

2008-05-24T20:07:18Z

i use external 2.5 HD, and i receive this cylinder error when i try to open or copy most of files, but when i do scan my hard disk, it didn't show any error/Bad sector on it. what could it be???????

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Comment from Heickel on 2008-04-29

2008-04-29T11:21:25Z

i use external 2.5 HD, and i receive this cylinder error when i try to open or copy most of files, but when i do scan my hard disk, it didn't show any error/Bad sector on it. what could it be???????

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Comment from OMH on 2008-03-16

2008-03-17T01:37:27Z

I have what I believe is a good workaround solution to bad sectors on a HD. I just finished doing it to my 40Gb Quantum HD, which previously was so filled with bad sectors that I could not reinstall Windows, and it is now working flawlessly! Here is my solution: 1. Run a surface scan on the HD to determine where, EXACTLY, the bad sectors are located. Use a program like "Partition Table Disk Doctor"; it found all the bad sectors on my drive were located in 3 seperate areas from cylinder 0 through cylinder 1063. 2. Note the locations of the bad sectors. 3. Partition your HD. (I suggest you use a program like Acronis Disk Director; it will give you the flexibilty and HD information that you will need more so than simple Fdisk.) Make one partition that covers up to and a little bit past the point where the bad sectors were reported. (In my case, that was an 8Gb partition that ran from cylinder 0 to cylinder 1063.) Then make another partition in the area that is NOT affected by the bad sectors. THIS is the one you're going to set as active, format, and prepare to accept your O/S. 4. Now delete the first partition, the one with all the bad sectors on it. Doing so will turn it into "unallocated space". MAKE NO ATTEMPT TO USE THIS SPACE ANY LONGER! Yes, you may have to lose a few gigabytes of space, but it's worth it to have your PC working well again. As I said at the start, this is the method I used that got my HD running perfectly! I hope it helps someone.

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Comment from sherif on 2008-02-12

2008-02-13T01:12:42Z

how can i remove he bad sector by a boot cd

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Comment from 43vents.com on 2008-01-29

2008-01-29T21:30:16Z

Norton Disk Doctor, which is a part of Symantech suite simple uses chkdsk for NTFS volumes. Don't bother installing it.

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Comment from Asmar on 2008-01-25

2008-01-25T12:42:27Z

You can repair bad sectors permenently insted of blocking them you can regenrate bad areas sucsesfully.. by using a software called Hdd regenerator this software is a freeware and unbelievable you can easily find it on you windows crystalxp cd insert it and on boot menu go on hiren cd,s then enter on hard disk tools then on hdd regenarator it will take 1 or 2 hour to procseed if you can,t find windows crystalxp v.2 cd then search on www.google.com.pk type hdd regenarator on search bar

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Comment from Rpciam on 2008-01-09

2008-01-09T20:22:05Z

or do this:
1: Double-click on “My Computer”.
2: Select the disk/partition that you want to diagnose and repair.
3: Right click on the disk/partition you selected and click on “Properties”
4: Choose the “Tools” tab.
5: Click the “Check Now” button under “Error Checking Status”.
6: Depending on your type of Windows, choose “Thorough” or “Scan for and Attempt Recovery of Bad Sectors.”
7: Click Start.

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Comment from kulwinder on 2007-12-18

2007-12-18T08:38:34Z

i want to remove bad sector from hdd
and how i protect it again coming

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Comment from Asif Ghani on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T06:34:44Z

hi Freinds,
Use NORTON DISK DOCTOR it will Fix HDD Bad Sectors.

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Comment from mygor on 2007-08-18

2007-08-18T08:55:56Z

Seatools for dos will delete bad sectors on hard drives If they are made by seagate , or maxtor .
I hope this helps.

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Comment from Mohammed Hussam on 2007-08-05

2007-08-05T07:22:26Z

try This tool (HDDScan) to verify the hard disk surface scan it runs under Windows and it's freeware.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2007-03-16

2007-03-16T23:53:58Z

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Comment from M.Azizi on 2007-03-16

2007-03-16T18:23:31Z

I have a drive that i think has bad sectors on it and i can't use any load windows on it at all , i tryed to put it in my other computer and do it that way and it won't startup, Is there anyway to fix the bad sectors without windows?

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Comment from The Beerslayer on 2007-02-14

2007-02-15T01:26:32Z

One concern I have with Leo's response here:

By the time a disk utility or operating system is reporting bad sectors on a modern hard disk, the pool of spare sectors held in reserve HAS ALREADY BEEN USED UP.

The drive firmware will use these sectors on-the-fly as it detects bad or failing sectors during normal use, and it does this completely transparently to both the operating system and the user. Only when the pool of spare sectors is completely exhausted will bad sectors be reported to the operating system (and from there to the user).

Other than this minor nit, the rest of Leo's advice is spot on.

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Comment from Data Recovery on 2007-01-30

2007-01-31T03:52:37Z

I used Bnytech Inc in NYC for this job A+++ for small ammount.

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Comment from Ratters on 2006-11-29

2006-11-29T22:11:12Z

In days of old using Format /C would make the hard drive recheck areas suspected bad, however this was FAT32 not NTFS and does seem a tad drastic unless you can shift the data onto another source. you would need to refat the hdd using a 98se bootdisk first before using the above command.

I should mention that in rare situations software bad sectors can be created this was a problem back with Windows 98 where if your drive was not installed with LBA in the bios 98 could write software bad sectors to the disk hense causing performance issues and crashes proving the not all bad sectors are fatal.

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Comment from cold on 2006-11-12

2006-11-12T13:55:36Z

On Windows XP, I'd start with a "chkdsk /R". (/R: "Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information"). Fire up a command prompt to run that command.

Under Windows 9x, (95, 98 and Me) I believe scandisk has an option to do a surface scan and repair as well.

use a win 98 start up disk (remember u will loos all files on this hhd when it is done it will be blank)

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-11-09

2006-11-10T06:50:00Z

read the article you just comment on

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Comment from yousaf on 2006-11-09

2006-11-10T06:29:19Z

plz how i remove badsector

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Comment from matt on 2006-11-07

2006-11-07T09:33:50Z

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-10-03

2006-10-03T16:02:00Z

Please read the article you just commented on. Your answer is there.

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Comment from vivek on 2006-10-02

2006-10-03T05:55:28Z

da sir/madam

may i know to remove/rescue from the bad sectors in hard drive that can i not miss my important dots so as far as possible i am very thankful to u so that i am very glad to u

thanks
and appriate urs letter
vivek

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-08-09

2006-08-09T17:06:44Z

SpinRite, mentioned in the article, does not require a working operating system - it provides its own boot disk. I would try that.

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Comment from ALTAF on 2006-08-09

2006-08-09T16:57:08Z

i have a 40 gb hard disk there are many bad sector in hard disk so give me a advise how to remove a bad sector . but win98 setup in not complete. so give me advise how to complete setup

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Comment from Mudassir Khan on 2006-07-21

2006-07-21T16:49:24Z

Use HDD Regenerator. Its a physical bad sector recover tool. I have recovered more than 1000 bad sectors from my drive. Must Check this.

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Comment from keith gibson on 2006-07-05

2006-07-05T21:20:33Z

samsung make a diag tool sugest you who have samsung go to web site its a dos based tool for sam sung drives

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-06-10

2006-06-10T23:10:11Z

The article you commented on has my primary recommendations. You can also check with Maxtor.

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Comment from Tharsan on 2006-06-10

2006-06-10T18:01:40Z

Hi,

I have a Maxtor Hard drive. I was hoping, Leo that you would be able to find me some softwares that can remove my bad sectors without wiping the drive's information.

Thankyou

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Comment from mikhal on 2006-06-02

2006-06-02T12:48:09Z

I had the same problem but on my startup on bios i can detect my harddrive.I see it on my bios and on boot up, but when i try to access it via windows it shows that this hard drive is not there? any tips to find this missing hard drive. I tried using memory mangament (xp pro) but i cant seem to detect it, how will i format it if i cant even find it. Thanks,

Adam

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Comment from Leo on 2006-05-22

2006-05-22T23:10:27Z

Thomas: you'll have to boot from something else - a floppy or a CD-ROM with the appropriate repair utilies. SpinRite, mentioned in the article, comes on bootable media.

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Comment from thomas on 2006-05-17

2006-05-17T10:20:23Z

if the hard driver can't boot and hard drive got bad sector how to fix it's

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Comment from Leo on 2006-03-14

2006-03-15T01:53:11Z

SpinRite, mentioned in the article, is it's own boot disk, so the hard disk doesn't have to be working for SpinRite to try and fix it.

Good luck!

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Comment from Tim on 2006-03-14

2006-03-14T21:48:20Z

I have an ADI early to mid 90's computor with win.98 on it. all of a sudden my computor won't boot up and it says bad sectors. How do i fix the bad sectors if I can't get it to boot up. Somebody told me you can't fix it, but i don't believe that. What do you think?

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Comment from Leo on 2006-03-12

2006-03-12T22:57:19Z

PLEASE read the article you just commented on. Thanks.

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Comment from tprelipceanu on 2006-03-12

2006-03-12T22:35:53Z

recently i have found that my hard drive has bad sectors! how i solve the problem? pls help me!My hard drive is WD 160GB and the problems appears in the first 40 GB.only in this zone my hard drive is blocking the sistem!please help me!!!
thanks!!!

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Comment from Rob on 2006-02-08

2006-02-09T00:31:38Z

Hi,

I have just had the same problem with an 80 Gb Seagate drive.

Do the following to fix it:

1. Go to http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/ and download the desktop version.
2. Create a boot CD using the ISO.
3. Back up all the data you want to keep on the old hard drive (this won't matter if you are perfoming a clean install).
4. Boot the computer with the SeaTools CD just created.
5. Select all of the tests and make sure you select the Advanced test. It will go through and find the bad sectors.
6. Once it has found the bad sectors, it offers to recitfy them by activating spare sectors on the HDD. Do it!
7. When done, format the HDD and re-install Windows.

This process will guarantee that you lose data if you don't back it up initially as sectors containing data are replaced and there is no chance of recovery.

Please note: Most HDD manufatcurers have a diagnostic utility for their HDD. I have Seagate, Maxtor and Western Digital so far in my collection. Have a look on the manufacturers web site for a utility before throwing the HDD away.

Have fun!

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Comment from neal on 2006-01-22

2006-01-22T11:11:51Z

I fixed my bad sector on my HD. I did this by reading what you put in the main comment, unlike some people who obviously cant be bothered to read up.

This is what I did...

TIP! I use drive D as egsample. Replace capital D with the letter of your drive.

1. "Start" "Run" type COMMAND click "ok".
2. In new window, type D: (D: is the drive that failed in my case - eg. type C: if drive C is failing with you, or F: if drive F etc) and press "return" or "enter".
3. Where it says D:\> type CHKDSK /R {eg; D:\> CHKDSK /R) press "return" or "enter".
4. Wait.
5. If this has not worked, quick format drive, then go to step 1.
6. If still does not work.... good luck in future

Thank you helping me fix my drive Leo.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-01-12

2006-01-12T17:55:33Z

For practical purposes, bad cluster is roughly the same as bad sector. The article you just commented on has my recommended steps to take.

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Comment from mohamad t on 2006-01-11

2006-01-12T07:44:29Z

HELLO -THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP SERVICE
WHEN I START MY PC IT IT SHOW EROR BAD CLUSTER -PLEAS HELP ME -WHAT IS BAD CLUSTER SAME BAD SECTOR OR ANOTHER -AND HOW I CAN SCAN MY PC-BECAUSE IT CANt FORMAT FO INSTALL WINDOWS

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-01-10

2006-01-11T03:15:51Z

There's so little information there, it could be many things. Are you following all the recommendations here: http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_keep_my_computer_safe_on_the_internet.html

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Comment from Morpheus on 2006-01-10

2006-01-10T21:39:52Z

I finished a fresh format (winxp sp2). It worked properly for 2 days....but since this time my computer didn't boot because of a system file missing....pease give me the reasons that cause this problem!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Comment from Dudhaw on 2005-12-27

2005-12-28T06:55:42Z

Try to use HDD regenerator, it works in harddisk!!!

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2005-12-12

2005-12-12T18:07:26Z

FWIW that doesn't match my experience at all. I've had several Maxtor drives (I particularly like the external usb/firewire drives) and they've all done as well as any other drive.

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Comment from Daniel Emmons on 2005-12-12

2005-12-12T14:53:04Z

MAXTOR brand Hard Drives are without a doubt the most horrible hard drives out! You are very lucky if they last more than a year nowadays! DONT BUY MAXTOR and your bad sector blues will not happen as much. Seagate Hard Drives however are the SH!T!

I recomend seagate over any other brand but WD & samsung isnt too bad either...

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2005-11-17

2005-11-17T16:40:58Z

The closest "application" I'm aware of is SpinRite, as mentioned in the article. It does extensive work to attempt to recover, and then repair, bad sectors. Obviously it can't get them all, but if it can't I believe your next step is a repair shop or data recovery service.

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Comment from Eduardo on 2005-11-17

2005-11-17T15:32:01Z

I heard that there is an application that can regenerate bad sectors, applying a magnetic charge on the sector to "recharge" them, is this true? where do i find it?

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Comment from Leo on 2005-10-26

2005-10-26T15:18:06Z

Repairing it usually isn't worth the money, even if you can find someone to do it (I wouldn't know who). Drives are so cheap these days that replacement is typically the way to go.

I would consider purchasing SpinRite as mentioned in the article - it does perhaps the deepest analysis and recovery that I know of. If that failes, I'd replace the drive.

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Comment from liladhar mahato on 2005-10-26

2005-10-26T15:02:17Z

i have found some bad sectors in my hard disk. my c: drive is ok but there is a problem in d:. when i run scan disk the checking was stopped at 21% in drive.would i have to change the harddisk.or it can be repair.if it will repair what will be the process.i have a segate hard disk of hcl branded PC.

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Comment from Dragos on 2005-10-03

2005-10-03T21:20:59Z

Use HDD Regenerator to recover bad sectors on your drive. This will allow you to recover or backup your data...I wouldn't trust the drive after that. Once a drive starts to fail there is no turning back...
There is a disc on the net called HIREN BOOT CD .. some of the best tools you will find anywhere.. get it !!

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Comment from dan on 2005-08-15

2005-08-15T19:56:42Z

hi, last night my HDD crashed. computer wouldn't start with "Data read error has occured"

i booted up in windows xp setup and formatted the disk, half way through the format it gave an error and aborted. i tried a couple more times to format it again with no luck.

i've re-installed windows on another smaller HDD and windows doesn't pick up the half-formatted disk so i can't CHKDSK it as its not mapped to any drive letter.

any help would be appreciated.

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Comment from Leo on 2005-07-26

2005-07-26T16:24:28Z

Please read the article you just commented on. It has my recommended solutions.

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Comment from surajit pal on 2005-07-26

2005-07-26T12:19:11Z

sir,
i am having 40GB HDD. it's detecting a harddisk bad sector of 32KB in my primary drive C:
eventhough i format the harddisk its going upto 99% formating after that it just remains at 99% for about 10 minutes and then it shows the format completion. but when i scan the drive using detect and fix harddisk errors form the tools property of the drive, it shows after scanning that 32kb is in bad sector.

i want to know how to remove these bad sectors form the drive and make it usable for me to install windows in that drive.

another problem is that whenever i save some data in that drive, if the data happens to get in the bad sector area then it is detecting that data is not found.
if i happen to remove the data that has logged in the bad sector then even after deleting the data the memory remains occupied, and it is not showing the same space in the free space of the disk.

please kindly help me out of this problem.

surajit

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Comment from arman on 2005-05-13

2005-05-13T11:10:08Z

http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_fix_a_bad_sector_on_my_hard_drive.html

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Comment from manoj on 2005-05-12

2005-05-13T05:25:54Z

hello sir
how can we fixd bad sector in my hard disk
plz send me how can we fixd properly.

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Comment from Leo on 2005-04-24

2005-04-24T17:17:29Z

The tools mentioned in the article should work well. You can also check the support section on Seagate's website: http://www.seagate.com

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Comment from karthik on 2005-04-24

2005-04-24T11:20:30Z

Pls tell me there is any specail software

available in net for SEAGATE harddisk..to detect

bad sectors.. If it soo pls send me the link..

thnks..
karthik

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Comment from Anubhav Raikar on 2005-04-16

2005-04-16T11:20:22Z

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)

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Comment from Leo on 2005-03-06

2005-03-07T04:59:26Z

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

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Comment from Shayna on 2005-03-06

2005-03-07T04:26:04Z

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?

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Comment from Leo on 2005-02-14

2005-02-14T17:36:57Z

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

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Comment from Robert Shembilu on 2005-02-14

2005-02-14T11:34:20Z

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?

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Comment from Leo on 2005-02-07

2005-02-07T20:23:14Z

Please read the article for suggestions.

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Comment from Muhammad Adil on 2005-02-07

2005-02-07T20:01:27Z

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!

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Comment from Leo on 2005-02-06

2005-02-07T06:42:28Z

Scandisk should fix it.

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Comment from mahdi on 2005-02-06

2005-02-07T06:36:05Z

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

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Comment from michael horowitz on 2004-12-13

2004-12-13T20:28:08Z

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.

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