Any Hard Disc 'Bad Sector' repair programs?
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From: Richard Steinfeld on 13 Jun 2005 14:08 derek / nul wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:26:50 +0100, John Latter <jorolat(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>Are there any freeware programs which can recover 'bad sectors'? > > > What if the sector "IS" bad? I'll bet that in many cases, it is indeed possible to recover the data in sectors with sustandard magnetic strength. There's probably some software out there that works with similar logic to our favorite Exact Audio Copy. If so, I'd use such software to repeatedly chug through that sector to retrieve the data, if possible. Then, of course, run Scandisk to test and lock out the funky area. Now whether there's freeware that does this, and whether it operates sanely or is user-hostile: I don't know. Richard
From: Rudolf Gerhard H�cherl on 13 Jun 2005 15:19 try a programm called llf.exe (low level format).You need a DOS-Start-Disk with this DOS-Program and after you do the job, windows called you a factory new HDD. Good luck. Greetings machinehead666
From: John Latter on 13 Jun 2005 16:29 On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:26:50 +0100, John Latter <jorolat(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote: >Hi, > >Are there any freeware programs which can recover 'bad sectors'? > >Thanks in advance, Thankyou for the comments, info and links everyone :) -- John Latter Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect. http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html 'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech
From: Howard Schwartz on 13 Jun 2005 17:42 derek / nul <newsgroupspamtrap(a)sgrail.org> wrote in news:9foqa153usbiqe5t7kpd2q9vkavrhvob8i(a)4ax.com: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:26:50 +0100, John Latter > <jorolat(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote: >>Are there any freeware programs which can recover 'bad sectors'? > Funny: There ia a program called revive.exe that does this for floppy disks: salvages as much data as possible from bad sectors and moves the data. It uses multiple reads of the disk to optomize this. Do not see why such a program could not be written for a hard disk. (Revive is an old, freeware dos program). ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----
From: Marten Kemp on 13 Jun 2005 18:42
Franklin wrote: > On Mon 13 Jun 2005 15:43:29, Marten Kemp wrote: > <news:lYgre.3331$eM6.3120(a)newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net> > >>>Can`t be done John. You could download `powermax` from the >>>maxtor site, make a boot disk and test the drive in DOS. This >>>will give you an indication of the condition of the drive. I`m >>>afraid bad sectors are gone for good. best wishes..J >> >>Note about powermax: unlike the drive test software from other >>manufacturers, powermax works on any drive, regardless of who >>made it. >> >>If you want to retrieve the data from bad sectors, I'm afraid >>that jon is correct -- they're gone forever. If, on the other >>hand, you want to delete the bad sectors powermax will remap >>good sectors to the addresses of the bad ones, giving you a >>"clean" drive that's very slightly smaller. > > Some people say that SpinRite can recover "semi-bad" sectors but I am > not so sure. And, worse still, it is rather expensive $$$ware. IIRC, SpinRite was okay at aggressive retries Back In The Old Days of MFM and RLL drives where the controller logic was separate from the drive. These days, I _think_ that IDE drives do the retries themselves and software is unlikely to do any better. Of course, YMMV. My experience with SpinRite was to optimize the interleave on MFM drives, so I definitely could be wrong. -- -- Marten Kemp (Fix name and ISP to reply) |