Originally posted by: se7en gr
Can you recommend me some good disk utility (like xp's scandisk)
I recently had a bad sector on my sata (western digital 1600jd)
and apparently chkdsk or scandisk is NOT enough to make it right.
thanx
There is no way to "fix" a bad sector - they are usually damaged areas on the disk that cannot be repaird with software. Scandisk type programs merely mark the area as bad, and the drive skips over it when it's performing normal operations.
Sometimes there are logical bad sectors though, as came up with a recent drive cloning episode I had - the cloning software copied the MFT data, which I believe contains the bad sector map as well. (Not the drive's built in bad sector map, but the software one that the OS creates for new ones that show up.) So the new drives also showed bad sectors that didn't exist.
On a FAT32 formatted drive, Spinrite (utility found at Grc.com, costs a pretty penny though) can retest these bad sectors and determine if they're really bad or not. On NTFS though....well, its NTFS support still seems in its infancy.
Long story short, run the manufacturer's utility on the drive. If it spits out an error code, see if the drive is under warranty and return it. A dying hard drive isn't something you want to mess around with, unless you consider your data to be worthless. Even so, you should have a backup made.
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