Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP
"Porpoise" <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:50:06 +0100
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"Borgholio" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Porpoise wrote: >> >> "Borgholio" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >> >> >> So, if you are getting bad sector errors as soon as you add data to the >> disc, I would suspect the HDD of having problems. > > Yes I've known that the disc had problems for a week now. :) That's why > I need a better program than chkdsk to run a thorough diagnostic. In that case, you need the utility software from the disc manufacturer (which you should be able to download from their website for the specific drive). It may (dependant on the manufacturer) include utility to get the drive firmware to re-map the bad sectors to spare sectors hidden on the drive (if there are any left) and/or write zeros to the entire drive and enabling the firmware checks to find the bad sectors and map them to spare sectors itself. Other than that, if there are many bad sector errors occurring, there's not much you can do other than scrap the drive (drives are cheap these days). Certainly a lot cheaper than the time which it would take to recover the data from a screwed-up drive.