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Answer by aa
Submitted on 9/1/2004
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Hi Bad sectors cannot usually be recovered, rather they are marked with scan-disk using the surface or thorough option and then the operating system does not use them.This is because the data usually cannot be read or written properly. Formatting the drive will again cause the sectors to not show - but they are still there and when data is written to that address it becomes corrupt.This is usually indicated by a blue screen or error message at times the screen may also blank out and a busy error message will appear. HDD regenerator is a utility for repairing bad sectors and is very slow to recover a drive, the demo version will repair the first sector found.A more common solution is to use a utility like UBD98 or Partition magic to partition the drive so as to not use the portion containing the bad sectors leaving it as free space. For example if the end of the drive has all the bad sectors, partition the drive smaller so as not to use that portion and it will work perfectly well and be error free. Additionally, it is a good policy to always run a surface scan after partitioning so as to mark any bad sectors BEFORE installing an operating system, this ensures that the operating system is then error free and will work properly.Marking bad sectors before writing any data to a disk then ensures that the data does not become corrupt as it is written, example being an operating system may appear to install properly over unmarked bad sectors, but when it tries to read the data to run one gets a series of file not found or blue screen errors or freezes to the system for no reason.

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Question by pavankumar
Submitted on 2/26/2004
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what is a bad sector? what is software that can remove the bad sector in the bad sector?

Answer by raj
Submitted on 4/6/2004
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how are u

Answer by dumbass
Submitted on 4/13/2004
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bad sector on your hard drive...try format c: and see if that will fix it

Answer by sonu007
Submitted on 7/2/2004
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what is software that can remove the bad sector in the bad sector?

Answer by Dilip Rana
Submitted on 7/9/2004
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I have remove bad sector and Zero track from the Hard disk but not able to mark only particular sector and hide the sector. I does Hide sector but by making the sector of Hard disk

Answer by MMM
Submitted on 8/13/2004
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Answer by reddy
Submitted on 9/25/2004
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try out zero filling

Answer by shocked
Submitted on 10/3/2004
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do what?

Answer by navtej pal singh
Submitted on 10/15/2004
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how to remove 4.3gb bad sector

Answer by Sachin
Submitted on 11/2/2004
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I have remove bad sector and Zero track from the Hard disk but not able to mark only particular sector and hide the sector. I does Hide sector but by making the sector of Hard disk

Answer by saliq
Submitted on 1/27/2005
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bad sector on my hard drive i try format c:but not woraking hard.

Answer by alkemir
Submitted on 2/24/2005
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Your english sucks bigtime! Bad sectors are sectors on the drive'ssurface which aren't working the way they should. There's no cure for such sectors. (I can't believe it, even with a spell check program!)

Answer by GloBuS
Submitted on 2/28/2005
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scandisk can save bad sectors as files so that u dont save your data onto them... dunno how to do it in xp though ;((

Answer by imran
Submitted on 3/31/2005
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bad sector

Answer by SleeplessHacker
Submitted on 4/28/2005
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To my knowledge there is no way to remove a bad sector. However I do know that formatting WILL NOT get the bad sector removed.

Answer by SAT
Submitted on 10/29/2005
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A bad sector is a part of surface of Hard disk which can not be read or written upon by operating system say Windows or linux or whtever...due to physical or logical damage. Some software like HDD regenrator claim to repair the Physical damage..and sometimes if the damage is not actually physical in nature.Formating the Drive or Using Low level format helps..WHatever you do Just Remember to Backup your Disk and data...else..:-) regards SAT

Answer by gautam
Submitted on 8/7/2006
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u wanna get rid of bad sectors. see bad sectors are of two types. one is physical and the anotherone is the logical.if your hard disk exhibits logical badsector ucan repair it by using hdd regenerator1.42. it's really a good one in removing all those difficulties. in case of physical damage u r having two options. either u replace the older one with a newer piece or u can still have it at the cost of some spaces. use norton partition magic8.0 to block the partition having bad sectors. it can give u some peace of mind.

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Answer by mfb
Submitted on 5/12/2005
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Norton disk doctor is the best software for remaoving bad sectors.Try it OR format u r hard disk using fat16 file system and then convert it ot fat32.it also works. OR use disk repair soft ware to remove bad sectors.U can download it from http://www.unistal.com/disk_repair.html

Answer by shakeel
Submitted on 5/27/2005
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I want to remove bad sector from Hard Drive

Answer by ranjay singh
Submitted on 7/15/2005
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my answer is i lecation the answer of to remove the bad sector of hard disk the software of disk manager and i am a computer a computer Eng's and my knowledge is never

Answer by indonesia bersatu
Submitted on 8/25/2005
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HDDRegenerator1.51, maybe will fixing!?!?

Answer by PoserMobile
Submitted on 1/26/2006
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Are you people retarded?

Answer by Cenwio
Submitted on 2/8/2006
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You can't fix a bad sector. You can you tools to remap the bad sectors, so that the OS don't use it. Cenwio

Answer by ABID AKBAR
Submitted on 4/4/2006
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dear people .. you dont amagine what is bad sector , it is the damage area of hard disk drive , that can be repair or not ,mean pesyhcal badsector and internal plate badsector..

Answer by velu
Submitted on 11/21/2006
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what is the reason bad sector come? how we can stop it?