Any Hard Disc 'Bad Sector' repair programs?
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From: John Latter on 13 Jun 2005 04:26 Hi, Are there any freeware programs which can recover 'bad sectors'? Thanks in advance, -- John Latter Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect. http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html 'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech
From: old jon on 13 Jun 2005 04:33 "John Latter" <jorolat(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:2ngqa1pdrhgnim9r8ttb94pc8kblqa4koc(a)4ax.com... > Hi, > > Are there any freeware programs which can recover 'bad sectors'? > > Thanks in advance, > John Latter > > Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to > homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect. > http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html > > 'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech Can`t be done John. You could download `powermax` from the maxtor site, make a boot disk and test the drive in DOS. This will give you an indication of the condition of the drive. I`m afraid bad sectors are gone for good. best wishes..J
From: derek / nul on 13 Jun 2005 06:38 On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:26:50 +0100, John Latter <jorolat(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote: >Hi, > >Are there any freeware programs which can recover 'bad sectors'? What if the sector "IS" bad?
From: Conor on 13 Jun 2005 07:35 In article <9foqa153usbiqe5t7kpd2q9vkavrhvob8i(a)4ax.com>, derek / nul says... > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:26:50 +0100, John Latter <jorolat(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Are there any freeware programs which can recover 'bad sectors'? > > What if the sector "IS" bad? > FDISK/CHKDISC should flag it as bad and ignore it. -- Conor "Be incomprehensible. If they can't understand, they can't disagree"
From: Marten Kemp on 13 Jun 2005 10:43
old jon wrote: > "John Latter" <jorolat(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message > news:2ngqa1pdrhgnim9r8ttb94pc8kblqa4koc(a)4ax.com... > >>Hi, >> >>Are there any freeware programs which can recover 'bad sectors'? >> >>Thanks in advance, >>John Latter > > Can`t be done John. You could download `powermax` from the maxtor site, make > a boot disk and test the drive in DOS. This will give you an indication of > the condition of the drive. I`m afraid bad sectors are gone for good. > best wishes..J Note about powermax: unlike the drive test software from other manufacturers, powermax works on any drive, regardless of who made it. If you want to retrieve the data from bad sectors, I'm afraid that jon is correct -- they're gone forever. If, on the other hand, you want to delete the bad sectors powermax will remap good sectors to the addresses of the bad ones, giving you a "clean" drive that's very slightly smaller. -- -- Marten Kemp (Fix name and ISP to reply) |