Once you run a disk management tool over the hard drive and it 'flags' bad
secotrs: other tools should identify the same errors as that sector is still
on the disk but made unavailable to application attempting to write to the
disk.
There is not a user 'viewable' link between the actual drive / file layout
and your folders.
Consider that your 'Folders' are an index to the Hard Drive. You look up an
entry and it takes you striaght to the file. All part of system / drive
management.
You will not be able to get to the sectors on the hard drive and 'read' any
information unless you get some forensic software - expensive.
Better investment by far is to Backup all your information: use an external
hard drive and perform a Ghost backup.
You then should consider getting a replacement drive ASAP.
You should be able to use Ghost to transfer your image to the new Hard Drive.
In order to avoid further problems / frustration try to buy the same drive
make / model / capacity.
When one uses Ghost to image / back up / restore to a different drive
Windows will not work. It will require a Repair Installation to reset
Windows to the new hardware and generally OEM versions of Windows: especially
those supplied with Laptops do not have a retail type CD. In this I mean
that Laptops have a System Restore CD set that resinstates a factory fresh
state. It is impossible to perform other action, including recovery, repair
etc.
"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
> "Jay C" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:136201c4ae6f$49a32cd0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > My laptop froze-up and I had to do a hard restart.
> > Upon reboot, the drive seemed sluggish, so I ran norton
> > disk doctor, with the free space test enabled. CHKDSK found
> > 8kb of bad sectors. I went to the seagate website &
> > downloaded the seagate desktop software.
> >
> > I ran the extended test, & it found the bad sectors, &
> > attempted to repair them, this is a 2.5" SMART HDD.
> > The bad sectors were fixed & are no longer on the drive.
> >
> > XP pro SP2 still showed the 8kb of bad sectors, so I
> > downloaded a few other HDD manufacturers tests, which none
> > report, any bad sectors at all.
> >
> >
> > I remeber, when CHKDSK ran, & moved the data off, then
> > marked these 2 sectors
> >
> > $badsect
> >
> >
> > I tried to find these, but search stated they did not
> > reside, in hidden files and folders, on the C: drive
> >
> > Is this drive truly fixed as I suspect, or is CHKDSK
> > reporting them?
> > Is this a possible residual, of when they were marked as
> > bad by CHKDSK?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > JC
>
> In my experience, most disks with bad sectors fail after
> a while. If the laptop was essential for my work then I
> would replace the disk while I could. If it was not essential
> then I would chance it.
>
>
>
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