Recovering Bad Sectors

[ross147]

can i recover or clear bad sectors in my hard drive
(win98se)

[coolsights2000]

you dont want to get those back once they are bad leave them if you start getting more and more bad ones when you run scandisk then the drive is going out time for a new one........

[RWSchlatter]

as mentioned in the previous post, you will not want to recover bad spots, they are damaged !

Use scandisk to with the write and repair options to test the partition that is giving you problems. That should remove the bad spot fom allocation. (If you know that you happen to have a bad spot in a file, delete the file, scandisk cannot remove allocated file space).

If scandisk cannot remove the bad spot, make a backup of all data on that partition, format it, and restore. Format may do a better job to remove a bad spot on an empty disk partition.


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Regards - Richard

[mayton82]

i agree with the other two members who responded you can run scandisk and recover the data and scandisk will mark the area as unusable but the best thing for you to do is if the sectors contenue to go bad is to backup all data on the whole hard drive make a startup disk and make sure the disk contains fdisk and scandisk reformat all partitions with this command "format *: /c" without the quotations "" and replace the * with the drive letter then go into fdisk and erase all partitions and then with a startup disk handy restart the computer make sure the startup disk has fdisk on it then repartition the drive and reformat (with the previous command) the drive to make sure that all sectors are checked sometimes the sectors will by pass the first format the cause of bad sectors is that sometimes the sector ids will start to go bad then restore the backup and it should correct the problems i just recently had to do this to a drive thats how i know it works and if that doesnt work then contact the drive manufacturer to see if there is a low level format program available