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how to remove badsector from hdd

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rightclick Original post #1
Jun 18, 2010 at 8:10 AM
how to remove badsector from hdd

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hello
can u tell me?
gagan007
Jun 18, 2010 at 8:23 AM
zero fill or low level format could help you. have you tried that?
swatkat
swatkat #3
Jun 18, 2010 at 1:08 PM
Bad sectors are physical damages to hard disk platters. You can not "remove" them, but operating systems can "mask" them (i.e. avoid storing data in bad sectors). To do that, you need to run chkdsk command in "fix" mode ( Run chkdsk /f in command prompt and then reboot system).
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celldweller1591
Jun 18, 2010 at 4:31 PM
Bad sectors are physical damages to hard disk platters. You can not "remove" them, but operating systems can "mask" them (i.e. avoid storing data in bad sectors)
+1. Do checkdisk on each partition. "chkdsk /r /f"
alok4best
Jun 27, 2010 at 1:43 AM
yup, and most of the hard drives have some buffer(reserved) space which the os starts using to make up for bad sectors...U can use a floppy based program HDD Regenerator which is very good at masking off these physical bad sectors.
S
Jul 2, 2010 at 6:28 PM
computer automaticaly restart what is solution plz tell me