Bad sectors reovery?

[VulcanX]

I want to know if its possible to recover my hdd, seagate barracuda 7200.10 400 Gb Sata2 drive, because i ran chkdsk, after a black out, and it seems that i have 4Kb of bad sectors on it, so i went ahead and bought 2 x 250Gb, but i want to know if there is any way of recovering the drive, and if its not maybe just that specific partition(volume) that is saying that because i was running Azureus bit torrent at the time and think that only those files went corrupt, so should i try format it again and see what happens or is it gone for sure?

 

[tcsenter]

4KB is eight sectors (one cluster) using the NTFS default for drives/volumes over 2GB. Not a big deal unless it continues to develop bad sectors.

Use Seagate's diagnostic utility to perform an advanced diagnostic test with full surface scan and bad sector relocation. It will probably take a few hours or more but should tell you whether the drive is safe to use.

 

[VulcanX]

Sweet man! bcoz i need to know if i can use that drive still and hopefully recover the bad sectors and fix them.
And im not using it bcoz im worried that the hdd bombs and takes a mobo with it or some shit!

 

[Nothinman]

It won't take anything with it but when a drive starts developing bad sectors it's usually just the start, I wouldn't use that drive for anything important any more if it were me.

 

[JesseKnows]

Run SPirite 6.0 on the drive. It would either recover the data from the bad sector or fail to recover. Either way, it would also tell you whether the disk is having other problems.

It won't take anything with it but when a drive starts developing bad sectors it's usually just the start, I wouldn't use that drive for anything important any more if it were me.

In this specific case a used sector could have been damaged from the blackout. When Windows tries to read a damaged sector it marks the sector bad. There need not be systemic failure that would render the drive untrustworthy.

 

[Nothinman]

Just about every modern disk comes with a number of spare sectors that it uses to replace bad sectors automatically when it detects errors, if the drive is at the point where it's returning bad sectors up to the OS then it's run out of spares which means technically more than 4K have been lost.

 

[VulcanX]

Thnx a lot for the help guys miss my 400 GB of storage!!!
But thanks anyway for your help

 

[BlueAcolyte]

if it's dying, image the drive using the tools that seadisk has on their site and you can restore the image onto the new hard drives.