m16si Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 How can I destroy bad sectors on HDD or just turn off those clusters or space that has bad clusters?THe disk is IBM 40GBThnx
spacesurfer Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 run scandisk or chkdsk on the hard drive with the option to automatically fix and to scan for bad sectors and recover data...if any are found, the OS should mark these as bad and not write data to these sectors.
m16si Posted December 10, 2005 Author Posted December 10, 2005 Any Recommended program to do this ?I will try to run chkdsk !
Doc Symbiosis Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 Depending on the manufacturer of your HDD, you can download adequate software on the manufacturer's homepage.
johnnymad Posted December 11, 2005 Posted December 11, 2005 (edited) Get ILLEGAL. Boot your computer with it, and use HDD regenerator (menu hardrive tools).Two weekls ago when I used it in an old computer with a 20GB HDD, it repaired almost all the damaged sectors. The product mentioned in this post is a collection of pirated boot utilities. Please keep this in mind for the future. Edited January 3, 2006 by gamehead200
spapps Posted January 3, 2006 Posted January 3, 2006 sometimes its impossible to repair damaged sectors/clusters on a drive - physical problem.chkdsk or scandisk (Depending on the OS you are running) will find these as as said, will mark them bad so no data is written on them.I would highly suggest using the OS software to do this as it is the main thing that controls how data is written to the drive - using any other 3rd party software regardless on its reviews can sometimes really fail in doing what it is designed to do just my 2 cents
jcarle Posted January 3, 2006 Posted January 3, 2006 Download Hitachi's Drive Fitness program, for use with IBM drives as well.
nmX.Memnoch Posted January 3, 2006 Posted January 3, 2006 I'd also recommend backing everything up and start looking for a new drive. Bad sectors can be an indication of something else starting to go wrong with the drive.
LLXX Posted January 4, 2006 Posted January 4, 2006 On my drives, if only one bad sector appears, it's time to retire it. They're signs that the platter surface is failing.
Technoguy Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 well u can use Spinrite also works in most of cases though it ain't free but a worth buy.
N1K Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 well u can use Spinrite also works in most of cases though it ain't free but a worth buy.I've used Spinrite before and I can say that it saved disks which had more bad sectors than WinMe bugs
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