LUZR4LIFE Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 I have a HDD that I have ran scndsk on and when I try to copy things to the (bad)HDD it just hangs.I was wondering if anyone has used this program and have successfully repaired a bad HDD.THANKS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felix3650 Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 (edited) I have a HDD that I have ran scndsk on and when I try to copy things to the (bad)HDD it just hangs.I was wondering if anyone has used this program and have successfully repaired a bad HDD.THANKSI've used it.First on a 60GB old drive with 20% bad sectors and then on a new SATA drive with just some bad sectors.The SATA drive got repaired. I re-run a second check just to be shure.The 60GB one unfortunately seemed to be repaired but on a second scan the bad sectors reappeared.It was my notebook's drive. It became so slow that I had to wait almost 10 min for XP just to boot.Dumped it as soon as I could afford a new one .In my opinion it's good only if few sectors are bad, caused by an improper shut-down (logical bad sectors).Bad sectors tend to spread faster than a plauge. Edited October 13, 2009 by felix3650 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUZR4LIFE Posted October 13, 2009 Author Share Posted October 13, 2009 Thanks, I am working on a 160G Lappy HDD. It found 40 bad sectors at the beginning (before 1%) and now it's @ 61.95% and has been working on around 100. I still have away to go and hope soon to hit a good patch again. LOL. I also planned on running it a 2nd time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccl0 Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 i've used some of these tools in the past http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/ they worked for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUZR4LIFE Posted October 13, 2009 Author Share Posted October 13, 2009 Thanks ccl0. I had 147 bad sectors repaired but there was still a issue with the HDD. I ran it again and it picked up 4 bad sectors before I canceled it. I will check those tools out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jatin Beniwal Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 do you tried formating hard disk with zero fill. This is the only and best way that actually removes bad sectors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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