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Need Help Formatting A Hard Drive With Bad Sectors

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jutral

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Bleh.. I need some help with a computer I have.. A few sectors (probably 5-10) on the hard drive are bad, and Windows had no trouble marking them bad and staying away from them. Well, I recently did an fdisk (which worked fine) and tried to do a format. Well, when I tried to run the format it stopped on the bad sector, said it was trying to recover the data, and just sat there (for upto 30 minutes - before I shut it down). Is there any way I can get the cluster(s) marked bad before I format, or any type of work around I can use at all? I know I could buy a new hard drive to fix the problem, but I really don't want to spend a fortune for a HD when this one is fairly new.

Please, any help or advice /at all/ would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
This isn't what you want to hear, but if it's already got a few bad sectors, you really shouldn't use it. Once it starts to go, it's only going to snowball. If it's that new, see if it's still under warranty.
 
After doing some research I checked out my HD's manufacturer's website (Western Digital) and they had a utlity I could download to diagnosis problems on my hard drive, running in DOS. Ran it, did a quick check/fix, and the thing "fixed" or "marked" the bad sectors. Ethier way, I re-ran format and it worked fine. I wonder what the software could have done to an unformated disk..
 
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