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BAD sectors in HDD

8 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/bad-sectors-in-hdd.20050/

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steelwin Original post #1
Dec 9, 2005 at 3:05 PM
Iam having an HDD of samsung manufactufing of 40GB this hdd had developed many BAD sectors in it there is no partition done over it and i tried it to recover it with HDD regenerator but it goes on doing day's

what can i do to recover is there any software to recover it please tell me
S
Dec 9, 2005 at 3:44 PM
i think even the files u recover, thay will be corrupted and all the softwares will show same duration, i think
also wait for other replies
Kniwor
Kniwor #3
Dec 9, 2005 at 3:56 PM
If there's really imp data...
try recovermyfiles

i assume u have tried the freeware pci file inspector...
A
Dec 9, 2005 at 4:36 PM
steelwin said:
Iam having an HDD of samsung manufactufing of 40GB this hdd had developed many BAD sectors in it there is no partition done over it and i tried it to recover it with HDD regenerator but it goes on doing day's

what can i do to recover is there any software to recover it please tell me

This post should not be here in the first place and to
top it u have the same post in the 'Hardware Troubleshooting' section.
Mods delete this post cos it already exists in the Hardware Troubleshooting section.
Kniwor
Kniwor #5
Dec 9, 2005 at 6:32 PM
actually this can be tought of in ant section... basically all he can so is use softwares to recover data...

or give the recovery ppl
dIgItaL_BrAt
Dec 9, 2005 at 6:43 PM
i think he does not mean recovering the data,but instead recovering the bad sectors themselves.In sucha a situation,there is nothing much u can do other than buying a new HDD
V
Dec 9, 2005 at 7:12 PM
how abt using norton disk doctor !!!
enoonmai
Dec 9, 2005 at 9:22 PM
Thread already exists. Locking this one. Please familiarize yourself with which section to post your query under and make sure you dont open multiple topics in different sections for the same issue. Thank you very much.