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how recover my hdd that has badsector?
Name: zohreh Date: August 20, 2002 at 23:05:16 Pacific
Comment:
hello. I have a problem with pc's in my work office. HDD of this pc's has badsector.Capacity of this hdd's is 2MB almost. I can't install win98 because of badsectors. Please introduce a software for move badsectors to end of HDD. thanks very much.
Name: techtony Date: August 20, 2002 at 23:11:23 Pacific
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Bad sectors can't be moved. It's like a scratch in a CD -- can't be moved. Your company can surely afford 50-100 dollars for a new hard drive. If they can't -- work somewhere else. Your paycheck may bounce.
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Response Number 2
Name: ed Date: August 20, 2002 at 23:32:25 Pacific
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you can run scandisk from a windows startup disk, and run a thorough scan, bootup with the startup disk in a: type scandisk c: /thorough it will mark the bad sectors, as bad, and if the hd isn't failing will allow an install of windows. if after running scandisk in thorough, win98 still won't install it's time for a new hard drive.
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Response Number 3
Name: mesich Date: August 21, 2002 at 04:57:17 Pacific
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As TechTony stated the bad sectors cannot be moved.
I agree with Ed in running a thorough scandisk from Dos. This will mark the sectors as bad and you should be able to load Windows.
From personal experience and input from many others, once you begin getting bad sectors it only continues to rapidly get worse, not always the case but you should really consider a new hard drive.
Mesich
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Response Number 4
Name: khurram Date: September 17, 2002 at 22:23:45 Pacific
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i have a bad sectors in my hardisk oh 8gb company of hardisk is quantum bigfoot. plz i am poor boy.if i format the disk the then remove but not permently
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