How to recover Hard Disk bad sector

[straj]

Dear sir/madam,

Im using Win XP Pro with Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 40GB
Hard Disk. The HD is in separated into 2 partition (20GB &
20GB) (C: drive and D: drive)

Recently, everytime i boot my PC, a auto scandisk is
performed (blue screen). I find out about 64kb of c: drive
is in bad sector. After i scandisk the D: drive, about
81kb is in bad sector.

Pls advise me how to recover my HD bad sector in order to
run my PC smoothly. thank you.

 

[Lawrence]

Greetings Straj,

1) Click Start, then My Computer
2) Right-click on you C:, and select Properties
3) Click the Tools tab, then click the "Check Now" button in
"Error-checking".
4) Select both options (fix errors, and attempt to recover bad sectors)
5) Choose to schedule this run, the next time the system boots.

Repeat the above routine for drive D:

Once you've scheduled your repairs, reboot the system. It will begin the
repairs and recovery.

Then go get a cup of coffee, because it will take awhile to finish.... )

Once completed, it will have either recovered the sectors, or marked them so
that they will not be written to again.

Hope this helps,
-Lawrence in Seattle

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

Bad sectors that are "physically" corrupted can not be recovered. Those that
are "logically" corrupted, can! Chkdsk will either mark out physically
corrupted sectors or recover the logically corrupt sectors (you may loose
the information). If, after running chkdsk, you have marked bad sectors, it
is time to start thinking about replacing your hard drive. These types of
problems have a potential to escalate.

One of the major causes of bad physical sectors (aside from manufacturing
defects) is banging/moving your computer while it is running. Notebook
computers have been "ruggedizied", and are somewhat immune from this.
Desktop units/towers are not. If you give the tower on the floor a kick with
your foot, the heads may contact the rotating platters, thus causing this
problem.

 

[Lawrence]

"If you give the tower on the floor a kick with

your foot, the heads may contact the rotating platters, thus causing this
problem."

Indeed, and while making the most sickly sweet
"de-de-de-de-de-de-de-dling!" sound.
Back when I worked at a computer store, we smart-assed employees used to
joke about customers 'playing their hard drives'.

Considered downloading Seagate's disk health utilities?
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

Good luck,
-Lawrence in Seattle