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Recover HDD with bad sectors
Name: MadDog-2000 Date: August 2, 2003 at 22:13:06 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: 450 Mhz, 320 MB RAM
Comment:
My 120 GB HDD crashed a few days ago and now it has a few bad secotrs on it. I ran CHKDSK, the check disk program from the XP CD, and was able to boot back into Windows XP. Anyway, I need a way or program that can recover data from bad secotrs or sectors marked bad previously by the CHDSK program.
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