How to clear information about bad sectors in the 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]

You are one moron, but as we know this is a game to you.

 

[Pegasus]

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

You had to restart the topic because you wasted large
amounts of respondents' time in your previous threads,
ignoring their advice and coming up with new angles to
your imagined problem in a attention-seeking manner.
You also said that you get better advice from your
Russian countrymen. I think this is correct. They probably
told you where to go.

 

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

Their advices did not recover the free space.
Who sayd you, Pegasus, that the problem is imagined? Crazy David Candy? Do
you really believe him? If you do not beleave me you can see by yourself. It
looks like blaming a poster is a common behaviour of people, who are afraid
to recognize that they do not know how to resolve a problem.

 

[Kerry Brown]

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.

Asking the same question many times may get you a different answer but the
likelihood is that a different answer will be wrong. Many experts have
already answered your question and they all seem to agree. What you want to
do can't be done without losing data. It is most likely the drive is bad.
Your best option at this point is to backup what you can from the drive,
overwrite track 0 then try to repartition and format the drive. Do not trust
this drive with any data you don't mind losing.

One possible alternative is spinrite. It can be purchased here www.grc.com I
have never used so I don't know if it will do what you want. Make sure you
have the data on the drive backed up before using it.

Kerry

 

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

Thanks for your reply, Kerry.

Asking the same question many times may get you a different answer but the
likelihood is that a different answer will be wrong. Many experts have
already answered your question and they all seem to agree. What you want
to do can't be done without losing data. It is most likely the drive is
bad. Your best option at this point is to backup what you can from the
drive, overwrite track 0 then try to repartition and format the drive. Do
not trust this drive with any data you don't mind losing.

One possible alternative is spinrite. It can be purchased here www.grc.com
I have never used so I don't know if it will do what you want. Make sure
you have the data on the drive backed up before using it.

Kerry

 

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

Chkdsk /r does not find bad clusters on my HDD on another computer with
Windows 2000 SP4.

 

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

How my Russian countrymen said me, I replaced signed Microsoft driver for
Promise Ultra100 TX2 to an unsigned driver from a promise site and formatted
the disk on another computer HPdx6120, and chkdsk /r on my computer does not
find any bad clusters anymore!