I bought a 20 gb hard disk from my friend. I want to check whether the hard disk is free of bad sectors.
please help
2006-08-12 03:11:35 · 9 answers · asked by Aswin Suriya 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
go the HD's manufacturer site
look in the downloads for an ISO (CD image)
burn it on a CD (...)
install the HD in a PC start the PC with the CD and make a scan
can take some time, though (up to an hour / 100GB)
2006-08-12 03:23:01 · answer #1 · answered by mr. c 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put the disk in a computer and get it up and running. Then run the program disk defragmenter by going to Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools and then click on Disk Defragmenter
2006-08-12 10:18:18 · answer #2 · answered by answer_man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simple and best boot from windows 98 cd or floppy and format in dos type format c:/s while formating if hard drive has bad sector, message display recovering from 1458695 bytes e.g takes long time to format. after formating u can use as secondary drive.
2006-08-12 11:00:33 · answer #3 · answered by samir 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well there is ONLY one answer for ur case : use a partitioning/formating software like partition magic to format / check for bad sectors .
If you wanna know more.....
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2006-08-12 13:10:53 · answer #4 · answered by PC Doctor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
type
>chkdsk<
from command propmt with specified drive next to that command.
It will check for errors and tell whether ur drive is affected with BAD sectors
2006-08-14 04:35:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Install it on a computer and run either the Norton utilities or defrag from thw windows accesories.
2006-08-12 10:18:08 · answer #6 · answered by Guillermo S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
click on mycomputer icon open that
right click your hard drive then click on properties click on the tools tab at the top
then on the frist box click on
check now
tab tick the 2 box there and click on the start tab
2006-08-12 10:19:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Run > Cmd > Chkdsk
2006-08-12 10:17:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
run scandisk on dos prompt. or try any scandisk utility. i hope it works
2006-08-12 10:18:33 · answer #9 · answered by praveen jain 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋