I got a seagate ultra ata hd got a few bad sectors, I dont want to recover anything just know if theres anyway I can format it again or something
2006-06-21 09:24:01 · 7 answers · asked by diainfeliz 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Some hd manufacturers have a bad track repair software tool. (Maxtor does.) It tries to copy data in a bad track to a good track, then restricts the bad track. Try the Seagate web site. I do not know if the Maxtor tool would work on a Seagate drive.
If not, the Scandisk utility in Accessories/System Tools will find bad areas of the hard drive and mark them unusable. (Choose the full track-by-track scan. It takes a long time.)
You will probably lose any data that was on the bad tracks. If you lose parts of Windows or other program code, you will have to recover or restore it in some way. (Try first to use System Recovery to an earlier time)
If you lose any of your own data, you will have to restore it from a backup you took earlier. If you have no backups, it's gone.
DO NOT use Reformat except AS A LAST RESORT. Formatting a drive erases EVERYTHING.
2006-06-21 09:47:38 · answer #1 · answered by fredshelp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use scan disk. If the sector is physically destroyed, then no software will repair it. The integrated system tools (under accessories) will do as much self-repair as anything else commercially available (Norton's, etc). As stated by another poster, if the bad sector is on the boot section, forget it. If you have really critical data, you can bring it to a specialized data recovery company and they will recover the data for you for a price (usually starting at $200 plus)
2006-06-21 10:55:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF THE BAD SECTOR IS at the begining of a disk, then it's very difficult but it it's in the middle or somewhere outside the first stage. you can recover with some tools. but remember, there is no tool in the world that could repair bad sector, they only hide it. they can't repair it.
2006-06-21 09:28:06 · answer #3 · answered by iGyaltsen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to DOS mode. real dos , not the one that XP simulates.
Get a 98 or Me startup or bootable disk. get to DOS . and use "fdisk" to repartition everything and reformat all sectors. This might solve the trouble.
2006-06-21 09:36:00 · answer #4 · answered by GearSpec™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-13 17:53:34 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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they have everything there you will need for any system problem you may ever had.
2006-06-21 09:34:48 · answer #6 · answered by mikezrage 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can reformat it and it will mark the sectors as bad and unusable.
2006-06-21 09:26:01 · answer #7 · answered by thunder2sys 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋