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Best software to scan for bad sectors


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command prompt does it just fine...most other just put a GUI over the top to make it more user friendly.

just open cmd (might need to run as administrator if on vista or 7)

type: chkdsk c: /r then hit enter

c being the drive letter to scan

/r makes it run a full 5 part check and repairs errors if it can.

Note. to check your OS drive the computer will need to restart, just answer y to the questions cmd gives and then restart your pc.

Phil.

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Hello,

What is the best software to scan and repair hard drive errors?

Thanks.

As long as there are no physical bad sectors, HDD Regenerator takes the cake. It "repairs" bad sectors using magnetic reversal. Had worked brilliantly on one of my old HDDs. It claims a 60% bad sector repair rate for HDDs.

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Yah I used chkdsk but the drive is in bad shape... i just want to try to recover some data or at least have some sort of access to it. i can see the drive letter but when I click on it, it asks to format the drive. I think if I can get it to do a scan and fix sectors I should be able to see something.

chkdsk is finding errors and trying to correct them, it's just taking a long time. it's not an issue with the drive itself as it has another partition and that's working fine. I don't hear any clicking noises or anything. it's just an f'ed up partition.

Thanks all for the suggestions. i'll give them a try

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Still takes a long time. To check and flag them - use chkdsk. To attempt to rebuild them, spinrite.

TBH, if you have bad sectors, - warranty the drive, or replace it. Any drive with bad sectors is going to get more on it, and I hate non-reliable drives ;)

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Thats true, bad sectors are like cancers. The longer you leave them, the bigger they become. But think of this problem as positive. At least you now have good reason to go out and get that 1 TB hard drive you;ve always wanted. (Although I would still be pi**ed if I had to throw away an otherwise perfectly working HDD for almost no reason :pinch:

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Hahaha you know what did it? TechTool Pro on my mac. Woohoo! I got everything back in no time (figuratively speaking). I can access the users folder tho I stopped Techtool after a little scan to see if it picked up on anything.

There are still some errors but TTP is working on them right now.

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