how to fix "bad sector"
By newway64
@newway64 (342)
Canada
January 5, 2008 3:26am CST
i have a problem with my hard disk
"bad sector" , how i can fix this problem
i have 200 GB sata II
thank fo help
3 responses
@urbandekay (18278)
•
5 Jan 08
Depends what operating system you are running, you used to be able to run scandisk perform a physical scan and edit out bad sectors, perhaps there is an utility to do the same on modern OS, try googling it
all the best urban
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@santuccie (3384)
• United States
5 Jan 08
There's more than one way. Scandisk would be the quickest and easiest, which is usually in "tools" under "properties" on the drive you want to check for errors. Another way is HDD Regenerator, which works no matter what OS you use. When it finds bad sectors, it sits there and prods them until they get re-magnetized. HDD Regenerator can usually always read the binary data even if the sector is bad, and will restore the sector to the same polarity; it fixes bad sectors without formatting your hard drive.