How to clear information about bad sectors in MFT?

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

Hello
How to clear information about bad sectors in a MFT, for chkdsk to recreate
it properly? All 3-d party utilities show that the HDD is healthy, but
Windows remembers that the HDD has 100 GB of bad sectors. I do not want to
lose Windows XP SP2 and program settings on this system bootable HDD.
I had to restart the topic because of David Cardy's abuses of readers.

 

[David Candy]

Well known troll asking the same question over and over again.

 

[Guest]

Looks like you have a bad reputation.

Buy a new HDD. Don't cost that much.

 

[Steve N.]

Hello
How to clear information about bad sectors in a MFT, for chkdsk to recreate
it properly? All 3-d party utilities show that the HDD is healthy, but
Windows remembers that the HDD has 100 GB of bad sectors. I do not want to
lose Windows XP SP2 and program settings on this system bootable HDD.

You don't. If your drive really has 100 GB in bad sectors it's trash.

I had to restart the topic because of David Cardy's abuses of readers.

No you didn't. David Candy is "abusive" to just about everyone. What
good is starting a new thread gonna do? As you see, David jumped right
in on this one anyway.

Steve N.

 

[Steve N.]

Looks like you have a bad reputation.

Why? Because David Candy says so? LOL!

Steve N.

 

[Guest]

How to locate and correct disk space problems on NTFS volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315688

 

[Guest]

So you're not a Dave Candy fan?

It does appear that this has been posted several times and places.
With multiple helps suggested. maybe none have worked OR ..............

 

[Steve N.]

So you're not a Dave Candy fan?

Oh no, quite the contray, I love his caustic side and he's damn smart,
too (in addition to a damn smart-ass ). Sometimes it's very
entertaining. But just because one guy here calls someone else a troll
doesn't make it so.

It does appear that this has been posted several times and places.
With multiple helps suggested. maybe none have worked OR ..............

Yeah. Oh well. People post duplicates (and more) here all the time for
various reasons. BFD. Doesn't make them trolls. Try and educate them.
It's all we can do.

Steve N.

 

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

Thanks Dixonian69.

How to locate and correct disk space problems on NTFS volumes in Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315688

 

[David Candy]

This has been going on for years.

 

[Steve N.]

This has been going on for years.

Ok Dave. I'm not into researching it right now for myself so I guess
I'll just have to take your trusted word for it.



Steve N.

 

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

Thanks Steve N.

Why? Because David Candy says so? LOL!

Steve N.

 

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

Chkdsk /r does not find bad clusters on my HDD on another computer.

 

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

The previous helps have not worked.
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[Dmitry Kopnichev]

I do not have a bad reputation. There is just a crazy David Candy.
chkdsk on HP dx6120 shows that my HDD does not have bad clusters. Windows
2000 sp4 there shows full free space? Do I really, need to buy a new HDD,
Dixonian69?
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[Steve N.]

Hello
How to clear information about bad sectors in a MFT, for chkdsk to recreate
it properly? All 3-d party utilities show that the HDD is healthy, but
Windows remembers that the HDD has 100 GB of bad sectors. I do not want to
lose Windows XP SP2 and program settings on this system bootable HDD.
I had to restart the topic because of David Cardy's abuses of readers.

Do a google search on $badclus. You may find something useful, lots of
hits. There is apparently no way to natively remove it it Windows, once
it's there it's there for good until a reformat of the drive (and I'd
zero-fill it first, just to be sure). You may be able to slave the drive
to another machine and somehow manually delete the $badclus file on the
drive, then run a chkdsk /f /r on it but I've never tried it. There may
be other 3dr party utils that could help, but again you'll have to do
some research on your own as it's kind of difficult to duplicate unless
one has the self-same situation to play with.

Steve N.

 

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

Thanks Steve N.
I replaced signed Microsoft driver for Promise Ultra100 TX2 to an unsigned
driver from promise site and formatted the disk on another computer
HPdx6120, and chkdsk /r on my computer does not find any bad clusters
anymore!

 

[Steve N.]

Thanks Steve N.
I replaced signed Microsoft driver for Promise Ultra100 TX2 to an unsigned
driver from promise site and formatted the disk on another computer
HPdx6120, and chkdsk /r on my computer does not find any bad clusters
anymore!

You're welcome Dmitry. What puzzles me though, is that you seemed so
concerned about preserving data and programs on the drive, while all
along you knew and were told that formating the drive would likely
correct the file system anomoly in the first place.

Steve N.

 

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

I did not have another HDD to clone the HDD to.

You're welcome Dmitry. What puzzles me though, is that you seemed so
concerned about preserving data and programs on the drive, while all
along you knew and were told that formating the drive would likely
correct the file system anomoly in the first place.

Steve N.

 

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

The replacing signed Microsoft driver for Promise Ultra100 TX2 to an
unsigned driver from promise site helped, not formatting.