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One of my friends has recently setup a small computer repair and selling shop, I’m helping him with his shop on daily bases.
The problem we are getting over and over again in recent few days is hard disks with bad sectors.
These hard disks are of 5 G.B to 40 G.B space and are made by Quantum, Seagate, Westren Digital, NEC. We need to repair them but I don’t know the approprite softwares to repair bad sectors.Any help regarding this will be greatly apprecited.
Try this: While on your friend’s computer, or if their hard drive is plugged into your computer, go to Start > Run > Type “cmd”. Then, at the command prompt, type “chkdsk” followed by a space, then the drive letter of whatever disk has bad sectors, then “/f”. For instance, my media drive is “X:”, so the command to check and fix the bad sectors is:
Code:chkdsk X: /fHope this helped!
Aqeel wrote:One of my friends has recently setup a small computer repair and selling shop, I’m helping him with his shop on daily bases.
The problem we are getting over and over again in recent few days is hard disks with bad sectors.
These hard disks are of 5 G.B to 40 G.B space and are made by Quantum, Seagate, Westren Digital, NEC. We need to repair them but I don’t know the approprite softwares to repair bad sectors.Any help regarding this will be greatly apprecited.
Simple solution – go to the website of the hardrive manufacturer’s download section. Grab their “Diagnostic” software (they all have one), run the program and look for the Zero Fill option. Zero Filling a hard drive completely wipes everything off the platters except the outer few tracks. After Zero Filling, reformat and test again for bad sectors. If there are any, I personally toss the drive but you can put up with a few (not more than 10). If there are lot’s of bad sectors, the drive is done. If there are a few bad sectors after you reformat, note how many there are and run whatever software you were using to check the sectors at a later date. If there are even more bad sectors, take the drive apart and keep the magnets. Throw the rest in the garbage. It’s done!
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