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Sector repair software?

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imported_bowens

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Hi, I'm getting some i/o errors on my hard drive due to bad sectors. I'm backing up, but I have to bypass the bad sectors, and next I'd like to repair or delete the bad sectors and perform another backup before I reformat the drive.

Can anyone recommend a software the will find and repair the bad sectors? I'm looking at something by Unistal called Quick Recovery at the moment.

thx,

brad
 
What's wrong with MS Chkdsk?
If I were you, I'd be getting a diagnostic program from your HDDs manfg. and checking the results. Sounds like it may need replaced?
 
In the end there is no repairing physically bad sectors, they just get taken out of the usage table. This program does a good job recovering data from drives with problem spots.

Spinrite
 
well, I ran chkdsk from windows, and it completed successfully, but there wasn't any description of what was done by the process. Is there a log to be found somewhere?

Originally posted by: Old Hippie
What's wrong with MS Chkdsk?
If I were you, I'd be getting a diagnostic program from your HDDs manfg. and checking the results. Sounds like it may need replaced?
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Did you run chkdsk by going into command prompt? Or right click from the drive properties? Or let it scan at boot? Because if you run chkdsk by command prompt, it should have display a log right after scanning. If scan at boot, look into Control Panel->Administrator Tools->Event Viewer, assuming you are using Windows 2000/XP, not sure about Vista. If you scan the disk by using the right click method, it should have log in Event Viewer as well, but I am not 100% sure right now. Hope any of this helps a bit.
 
There is a primary defect list and a growth defect list. Smart is suppost to automatically take care of that if you endable it in the BIOS. If your drive is getting more than what the growth defect list can handle, which means the are more bad sectors than it should for the reserved table of good extra sectors, you should replace the drive. Again, drives are cheap now a day.
 
Anyone know of HDD Regenerator? I never had to use it but I keep a trial version stored in case I get a bad sector in some drive. The trial will attempt to repair the first bad sector it finds and reportedly assess whether the rest are also salvageable thus warranting the purchase of the full version.
 
Like Redbeard said - try this. Free, and it has worked for me since about 1986 (Version 1 - now at Version 6.)

SR6
 
Originally posted by: corkyg
Like Redbeard said - try this. Free, and it has worked for me since about 1986 (Version 1 - now at Version 6.)

SR6
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What are you talking about? Spinrite is not free, it costs 89$ for a single licence.
 
Originally posted by: KAZANI
What are you talking about? Spinrite is not free, it costs 89$ for a single licence.
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You can try it for free. It was free when I started using it back in 1986. 🙂

 
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