How to Fix Harddisk/Hard Drive Bad Sector Affected March 9, 2010
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This article will discuss about how to fix if your harddisk / hard drive bad sector affected. If you have not understood what is bad sectors and how to check the condition of your hard drive, then please read the article.
Bad Sector on the disk in general there are 2 kinds, namely mechanical/physical and software. Mechanical bad sector, ie as a data storage disc surface of the disk is physically damaged due to scratches eg, dust, loud impact, and so forth. While software bad sector can occur when the disk is busy sudden death, current breaks and so on.
For Bad Sector in the form of physical damage (mechanical), then it is outside this discussion, because it usually can not (very difficult) repaired. If there’s still the best guarantee that the new exchange. But if the bad sectors in the form of software, then it might still be improved. So the discussion here focuses only on bad sectors in the software.
How to fix Bad Sector?
!!.. Important information ..!!
If the hard disk has bad sectors affected are detected, then the first step is to save important data available both in store on the other hard drive, on a CD or copy to another. And before following the steps below ensure that important data is on backup.
First Step: Try formatting the drive or hard disk with bad sectors have common formats, such as through a right click in Windows Explorer and select the format. Sometimes this can eliminate the bad sectors.
If the first step is not successful, can be tried several ways with some of the following free software:
1. Easeus Partition Manager
This free software other than beneficial to create / edit the disk partition (view like Partition Magic), can also be used to remove bad sectors. The steps as follows:
- Running Easeus Partition Manager
- Select the drive there about bad sectors (to ensure it was bad sectors can also be scanned through this easeus right click drive Select menu Advanced> Check Partition)
- Right click and select Delete
- When the information appear then select “Delete Partition and Delete Data”
- If done, click Apply menu
- Wait until finish.
Please note, that this step can only be done to drive than windows. And make sure data is always secure / backup first.
Easeus Partition Manager can be downloaded/obtained from the following link (7.93 MB):
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm ( make sure download which Home Edition (free))
2. HDD Low Level Format Tools
With this software, the disk can be formatted in depth (in term low level format). It should be noted that the low level format, then all the data on your hard drive will be lost, and can not be refunded/the recovery again. But this way will usually be more effectively remove bad sectors.
Because the hard disk will be in the format entirely, then the hard drive will be processed on a computer in another format (removed and installed another computer). Or if there are 2 hard drives on the computer, the hard disk does not contain windows that can be formatted. Following steps:
- Running HDD Low Level Format tools
- Select the hard drive will be formatted. Of course that does not contain any windows operating system. Then click Continue
- Select the tab “LOW-LEVEL-FORMAT”, and please read the warning that appears
- If you’re sure, then click on “FORMAT THIS DEVICE”, and wait until the process is complete.
In addition to hard disk (SATA< IDE or SCSI), could also be to format USB Flashdisk, Flash card and the like. HDD low level format can be obtained/downloaded from the link below:
HDD Low Level Format Tool direct download version HERE (497 KB)
3. Use Default Hard Drive Software from Vendor
Usually vendors such as Seagate and Western Digital, also provides software to analyze or repair your hard drive. For seagate hard disk, it can download tools such as SeaTools for Windows or DOS. whereas for Western Digital can download tools “Wertern lifeguard Digital Diagnostics”.
Western Digital for example, include facilities “WRITE ZEROS” to correct errors such as bad sectors. For Seagate, so the install, then on the Help’ve explained enough detail about the benefits and uses.
Download Seatools (Seagate)
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools
Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/Western-Digital-DLG-Diagnostics.shtml
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