How to repair bad harddisk block ?

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Hi guys, is there anyone can tell me how to repair the
bad block of harddisk? My laptop which runs WinXP Pro SP1
currently experiences such problem as the hard-disk often
stops responding, quite annoying! Is there any command I
can use except format.exe ? Thanks :p
 
John Shen said in news:[email protected]:
Hi guys, is there anyone can tell me how to repair the
bad block of harddisk? My laptop which runs WinXP Pro SP1
currently experiences such problem as the hard-disk often
stops responding, quite annoying! Is there any command I
can use except format.exe ? Thanks :p
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chkdsk /r
 
John Shen said:
Hi guys, is there anyone can tell me how to repair the
bad block of harddisk? My laptop which runs WinXP Pro SP1
currently experiences such problem as the hard-disk often
stops responding, quite annoying! Is there any command I
can use except format.exe ? Thanks :p
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Visit this site: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

SpinRite is an excellent program in maintaining hard drives.

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Hi guys, is there anyone can tell me how to repair the
bad block of harddisk? My laptop which runs WinXP Pro SP1
currently experiences such problem as the hard-disk often
stops responding, quite annoying! Is there any command I
can use except format.exe ? Thanks :p
Click to expand...

Plan on replacing the disk as quickly as possible.
 
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