Fix HD with Bad Sectors?

[Gregor]

I tried to reboot my computer and I got the message "a disk error
occurred" right at startup.

Booted from my Windows 2000 CD. It could see that there was an NTFS
partition, but couldn't find a Windows installation to repair.

Connected the drive to another computer and ran Norton Disk Doctor, which
said it could not detect a file system on the disk and therefore couldn't
go any further.

Ran Acronis RecoveryExpert. As it scanned the disk, it said sectors 95
and 96 were unreadable, but it did recognized the partition. It wouldn't
fix it, though, because it apparently only recovers deleted partitions.

Is there a way I might salvage some data from this disk (or better yet,
recover the disk itself)? Any utilities which might help?

Thanks a lot,

Greg.

 

[Lazy Programmer]

After you salvage all data you need, do a low-level format of the disk to
remove bad-sectors (if they are logical)... If disk still has got
bad-sectors, replace it with a new one... And, make some kind of hard-disk
cooling... Frony intake fan to blow across the HDD...

What exactly are logical bad sectors?
I've read many times that you should never low level format a harddisk. How
true is that ?

thx

 

[rcm]

You can't low level format a hard drive today. What is called low-level
today is a simple wiping of all the sectors on the drive to clear all the
sectors. Low-level goes back to early days of drives.

For some information on this, please read here

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/geom/formatLow-c.html

 

[Gregor]

Thanks for the advice. Using EasyRecovery, I was able to salvage most of
my important data, but the drive was quite badly damaged and needed to be
replaced.

Thanks,

Greg.


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