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hard drive with bad sectors

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rorpan

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I have a hd with bad sectors is there any way I can fix these sectors what should I do with this drive
thanks
 
What kind of drive do you have? I know that Western Digital has some diagnostic software that will let you write zeros to the drive that will sometimes fix a drive.
 
Go to the Drives web page, most have diagnostic downloads for free as yakko said. The software will either fix it or tell you that it can't.
 
It depends on HOW MANY bad sectors. If it's alot, consider that drive 'dead man walking', back up your data, and replace it. If you just have a few, and the number of them isn't increasing, you're probably OK for a while.
 
If you can run scandisk, two days in a row and find more bad sectors each time then I figure the drive is probably failing. If you do it two or more times in a row and you keep finding more then you are on borrowed time.

If you only get bad sectors one time and after consecutive scandisks you don't turn any up, I chalk it up to small inperfections in the media (or maybe from me moving it while its on..........😀 But I keep checking pretty regularly after that for signs it is failing. I hate losing a good install.
 
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