Bad Sectors..

[SE14man]

Hi,

Whats the best program to fix I/O Error sectors on bad HDD's.

Easy Recovery picked it up.

So far i have used:
Spinrite - No luck!
& Chkdsk.

Please tell me statistically what the best one is!

Thanks!

[Krispy Kritter]

Download the HDD tools from the appropriate manufacturer (if it is a Seagate drive for example, download the Seatools software from Seagate). Each manufacturer has HDD tools for drive maintainance. You can use it to test the drive for errors, and they often include tools for formating the drive. You can perform a low level format which will remap all of the bad sectors.

Although, it should be noted that if there are a lot of errors, it is usually a sign that the drive is failing. Don't use it for a boot drive or important data.

[SE14man]

Thnks mate.

So if i were to do all this to the drive, when i do another scan in easy recovery afterwards would it still say Bad I/O sector no matter what maintenance i put the drive through?

[Bjs]

The manufacturers tools are sloppy at best .

If you really want to go to town on it , you should grab a bootable linux distro called insert , burn the iso with imgburn or nero to cd , set pc to boot from cd .

http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html

The distro comes with all the manufacturers drive test tools , but if you want to get right into it , the linux tools are the best .

Xp "hot patches" bad sectors , so that data dose not get written to these area's later .

There's always a chance that those sector errors are reported incorrectly by xp's auto patching and thats what that tool is reporting ... it dose happen ... some programs are better .

Yes , even if issue is dealt with , that tool may still report issues remaining .

[SE14man]

I am having hellish problems.

On my 13th attempt to install windows vista on this hard disk drive.
It errors in different places thru out every installation!
This kinda tells me its the hard disk!

I need software which is going to sort this out once and for all, something that can make it avoid the bad sectors because its startin 2 do my head in now!

Cheers!

[budz]

buy a new hard drive. just my 2 cents!

[SE14man]

Sorry i shd have wriote other than buying a new hard drive!

Can i not ge software that will make windows avoid the bad sectors in some way?

[budz]

Why use a hd that has bad sectors that will eventually fail? Wouldn't you wanna use a brand new hard drive?

[SE14man]

From whats happening, are these signs of a bad hard drive mate?
Failing in different places thru out the installation each time?

[budz]

From whats happening, are these signs of a bad hard drive mate?
Failing in different places thru out the installation each time?

sure sounds like it.

[Krispy Kritter]

If it continues to fail in different places, then the drive is failing. If it was a few erros or sectors, then formatting would help (sectors would get marked as bad and not used). In this case, it sounds like actual hardware failure, not just a few bad sectors.

For less than $100, you can have a new drive.