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Bad Sectors Remover
Is there any bad sector remover available for free(preferable)/purchase.
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You don't WANT to remove bad sectors from your hard drive. They are failing
areas on the drive that have been marked as bad to prevent you from saving data to the bad spots. If you remove the bad sector markers your system would try to save data in the failing areas and you would likely lose whatever was saved there. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * My website, such as it is ... http://rgharper.mvps.org/ * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Farhan" wrote in message ... Is there any bad sector remover available for free(preferable)/purchase. Farhan |
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On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:42:44 +0500, "Farhan" wrote:
Is there any bad sector remover available for free(preferable)/purchase. There's only one context where a bad cluster "remover" is useful, and that is where a partition is imaged from a failing HD to a good one, thus carrying over the sick HD's bad cluster markers. As these markers now have no link to the reality of the new HD, you'd want to reset them, and so far I've been doing that on FATxx via DiskEdit. There should be an easier way, and probably is. However, if you haven't imaged from a sick HD to a good one - i.e. you are still on the sick HD - then you should rather replace the sick HD. ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - - Gone to bloggery: http://cquirke.blogspot.com ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - - |
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Chris
IIRC, running ScanDisk in Thorough mode rechecks bad sectors, doesn't it? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q103956/ -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" wrote in message news On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:42:44 +0500, "Farhan" wrote: Is there any bad sector remover available for free(preferable)/purchase. There's only one context where a bad cluster "remover" is useful, and that is where a partition is imaged from a failing HD to a good one, thus carrying over the sick HD's bad cluster markers. As these markers now have no link to the reality of the new HD, you'd want to reset them, and so far I've been doing that on FATxx via DiskEdit. There should be an easier way, and probably is. However, if you haven't imaged from a sick HD to a good one - i.e. you are still on the sick HD - then you should rather replace the sick HD. ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - - Gone to bloggery: http://cquirke.blogspot.com ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - - |
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bad sectors are parts of the disk that are unable to have data written due
to damage (eg they can occur from phsically-jolting or rough handling of the system case or dropping the hard drive, which can cause physical damage to the disk platters inside the Hard drive casing. The read-write heads hover only a hair's with above the surface of the disk - any jolt could cause obvious damage from the r/w head impacting the surface of the disk. "Farhan" wrote in message ... Is there any bad sector remover available for free(preferable)/purchase. Farhan |
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we're talking about bad SECTORS not bad clusters - two different things.
"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" wrote in message news On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:42:44 +0500, "Farhan" wrote: Is there any bad sector remover available for free(preferable)/purchase. There's only one context where a bad cluster "remover" is useful, and that is where a partition is imaged from a failing HD to a good one, thus carrying over the sick HD's bad cluster markers. As these markers now have no link to the reality of the new HD, you'd want to reset them, and so far I've been doing that on FATxx via DiskEdit. There should be an easier way, and probably is. However, if you haven't imaged from a sick HD to a good one - i.e. you are still on the sick HD - then you should rather replace the sick HD. ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - - Gone to bloggery: http://cquirke.blogspot.com ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - - |
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:49:22 +0100, "Noel Paton"
Chris Hi! IIRC, running ScanDisk in Thorough mode rechecks bad sectors, doesn't it? I don't think it does, unless you force it to via a setting of some kind. I say that because I usually see a scan stop and retry bad sectors when they are discovered to be bad, but it always glosses over existing B(ad) blocks with no pause unless it discoveres a new one. In the context of a partition imaged across from a sick HD to a good one, simply running Scandisk surface scan (in DOS mode, I don't use the Windows one) shows the same B(ad) markers in the same place - a consequence of carrying over the FATs verbatim - and doesn't un-mark these when it surface scans the volume. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q103956/ Not the article I hoped it was (i.e. the one that mentions a possible parameter to force re-testing of clusters already marked bad) I find it quicker to search for and edit out BAD markers in the FATs via DiskEdit than look up the setting and redo the surface scan, but I agree this is not the best approach for most users ;-) ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - - Gone to bloggery: http://cquirke.blogspot.com ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - - |
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On Sun, 1 May 2005 13:25:36 +0800, "Andrew Murray"
we're talking about bad SECTORS not bad clusters - two different things. Not all that different; a bad cluster is a cluster that contains one or more bad sectors. Not to be confused with lost cluster chains, which is a file system logic error with no hardware significance. ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - - Gone to bloggery: http://cquirke.blogspot.com ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - - |
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