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Bad Sectors in hardisk Hardware and Software Hardware by ide One of my Segate SATA HDD had developed bad sectors, windows was having hard time reading the drive and system … Re: Bad Sectors in hardisk Hardware and Software Hardware by Xlphos hello ide, You could run checkdisk. Open command prompt and type [B]chkdsk /r[/B] this should fix errors on disk. Bad sectors should then be ignored and not used. Re: Bad Sectors in hardisk Hardware and Software Hardware by Jzskill … and OS uses defrag to move your data around bad sectors. This is a constant tuning for these hard drive manufactures… Re: Bad Sectors in hardisk Hardware and Software Hardware by Salem I suggest you get a new hard disk. It might start losing a sector a month, and before you know it, several sectors a week. How long before that wipes out something important, rather than the couple of hours it takes to reinstall the OS? 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ArrayList of range sectors Programming Software Development by jakubee …) { this.start = start; this.end = end; } List<Sector> sectors = new ArrayList<Sector>(); for (int i = 0; i… Re: hard disk bad sectors Hardware and Software Hardware by jbennet ? that makes no sense Re: hard disk bad sectors Hardware and Software Hardware by steven woodman hmmm, so whats the question. You say, your data is gone? Elaborate please. Re: hard disk bad sectors Hardware and Software Hardware by Salem Scandisk does a pretty good job of "moving" the data somewhere else if it can, before it marks a sector as bad. If scandisk is detecting new bad blocks on a regular basis, you really ought to be making a really good backup and shopping for a new hard disk. Re: Bad Sectors in hardisk Hardware and Software Hardware by ide Hi this is an update to the 1st post The hard drive in question was again acting up, PC hanging , disk read problems, long boot times So I had to again install winodws, I did a full format during the install and for the time being it is working, I did a scan of disk with HD tune software and it found error with one LBA in the disk Now my … Re: Bad Sectors in hardisk Hardware and Software Hardware by ide I had also bought a new WD250 GB disk That is also having problems :( I ran a check on it and there are 10 bad LBAs in it (although I have not formatted it since long) What do you think could have caused problems with 2 disks in a short interval of time ? Re: Bad Sectors in hardisk Hardware and Software Hardware by ide any help :( Re: Bad Sectors in hardisk Hardware and Software Hardware by Salem Do you have a CRT monitor? Is it near your machine? Do you degauss it often (though a lot of them auto-degauss). Do you have a decent power supply in your machine (name brand, well within spec), or some cheap and poorly regulated PoS operating near the limits of its capacity? When you power down the machine, is the disk still active when windows … Re: Bad Sectors in hardisk Hardware and Software Hardware by ide Thanks I guess, you are right, the powers from mains has been really unstable and fluctuating, so it might be the reason The PSU is also just average, not very special Re: Bad Sectors in hardisk Hardware and Software Hardware by feng128 please check your disk by command line "chkdsk /f " and repair the bad sector. I hope it is useful to you. Re: folders no access Win XP;drive checked good no bad sectors Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Adamsappleone Do you get "Access Denied" when trying to open them? Or do they just not open when double clicked?