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Removing bad sectors from a hard disk drive

Zone: Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: bad, sector, hard, disk

i have a hard disk with many bad sectors in it, assuming i have ran scandisk thoroughly, i want those bad sectors repaired and be on its good condition again, what freeware will i must have and where to have it? does Norton Disk Doctor do the same? if not, what does it do? how about checkdisk what does it do? give me opinions on how to save my hard drive

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Zone: Storage

Question Asked By: 4ceReconSniper

Solution Provided By: LucF

Participating Experts: 10

Solution Grade: B

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Comment by Francois_IT

Well, i purchased a AWESOME recovery software for dead HD... as long it spin and the mecanical is NOT damaged, it saved me lots of pain..

the program will check your drive sector by sector and remagnitize the bad one. It's not a format of low format..

take a look. http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

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SpinRite now brings its legendary data recovery and drive maintenance magic to the latest file systems, operating systems, and hard drives. It runs MUCH faster than ever before, can help maintain all of your drives in tip top shape, can warn of impending disaster, and wrestle data from dying and nearly dead drives . . . before it's too late.
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Comment by yogesh28577

bad sector is not remove by using any above mention tool so you use ranish partion manager to hide bad secftor & use remaining harddisk

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