hi guys
can anyone can tell me where i can find th software from which i can remove the bad sector on my hard disk....it will be cooooool if get although i had to spend some money to buy a new one thanks and u all take care
Printable View
hi guys
can anyone can tell me where i can find th software from which i can remove the bad sector on my hard disk....it will be cooooool if get although i had to spend some money to buy a new one thanks and u all take care
Scandisk? It's part of the windows OS. As well you can download it here and there. Then but it on a boot floppy and type: scandisk c:.
*************Quote:
Originally posted here by lovable
hi guys
can anyone can tell me where i can find th software from which i can remove the bad sector on my hard disk....it will be cooooool if get although i had to spend some money to buy a new one thanks and u all take care
If you want to "remove the bad sector", I don't know of any program that will do it. Scandisk will try to recover/move the data, then repair or mark the sector as "bad" so it won't be used by other data... Sometimes it works OK but if you get very many "bad sectors" it seems that some programs can't span them for some reason, and it seems that once a few bad sectors start showing up they multiply. I've used hd's with a few bad sectors but after while they become too much trouble. I hope I'm wrong about this and someone is going to tell how to remove bad sectors! Good luck... ;)
do it and it will help...Quote:
Originally posted here by {P²P}Apocalypse
Scandisk? It's part of the windows OS. As well you can download it here and there. Then but it on a boot floppy and type: scandisk c:.
or u can also scan your disk with Nortron's Antivirus.. that also scans your boot sectors..
intruder..
Modern IDE hard drives are very reliable up to
a point.
As soon as bad sectors show up, throw it away.
Here's the reason, as I understand it.
When new, the drive has hidden "spare"
sectors. When a sector goes bad, the drive
maps in one of the "spares" and the bad one
is never revealed to you.
By the time your OS reports bad sectors, the drive
has run out of spares and is in an advanced state
of decay. Throw it away.
:cool:
Scan disk can help you out, but keep in mind that somthing is causing the errors. More than likely your hard drive will deminish slowly at first then one day you'll try to boot the system and it'll be a no go. When it gets to this point it's a bear to save information to another disk. If I were you I'd start backing up files or get a cheap HD.
TUFF TEST can isolate problems for your system hardware. It will tell you all you how your system is functioning. controlers, CPU, mem...HD. You can even use it to low level format a HD (which isn't recomended on IDE drives)
rcgreen is right... once an IDE drive starts giving you bad sectors it's been going down hill for some time. Try scandisk if you have not, it's possible that it will recover the bad sectors and release the spare ones. If you still have bad sectors after that your drives days are numbered...
HOWEVER, do not rely on the cascading of bad sectors to legitamitly destroy your drive.....
the feds can still recover from it ;)
I've seen these symptoms a few times before, and as everyone has said, it's bad news - your hard drive is well past its sell buy date. It will work for a while, but sooner or later you will get a catastrophic failure - like inexplicable error messages from Windows/*nix when you boot your PC. As rcgreen said, once you run out of spare sectors, it's time to back up your data and buy a new hard drive.
In reply to k41d3r07h, even setting fire to your hard drive doesn't always work - in fact there are some companies that specialise in recovering data from PCs that have been almost destroyed in a fire (it is magnetic data, and it is surprising how much data survives).
yeah .. unfortunatly i know all about dying harddrives from experince..my girl friends laptop was having problems booting and when it would actually boot, most of the time it would freeze up. when i ran scan disc on it the bad sectors just kept coming and coming . i told her the hard drive was dying and when she took it in (since she didnt belive me..hehe) they told her the same thing..
I had bad sector problem with a Quantum and a Seagate abt 3 yrs back. This worked for me, I used respective Disk Manager (DM) from Ontrack (or the manufacturer) and I did the zerofill and then the low level format. Bad sector has yet to return.... ::cool::
rgds
de
hello, i dont know where to go to ask for help about my problem.. ive been reading posts here... so i decided to reply with my problem in this post because i dont know where to start... im sorry if im in the wrong place but i really need help, ive been searching somewhere but found nothing even in microsoft's KB.. i just installed win98se and when i boot up this BSOD displays "A fatal exception 0E has occured at 0317:00003D33. etc.." pls help!
"Error Messages"... Someone more versed will probably tell you exactly what the problem is, but... I had a similar "take a hike" message during a recent install of W2000Pro. I wrote it down exactly, then went to the MS Knowledge base/discussion page for W2000Pro, entered the phrase into the query box, and bing-bang-boom, here comes three pages of print that told me how to go to two or three dozen system locations, delete about that many instances of another driver program I had, and whadaya think, it fixed the problem. Also, my ISP guys say they benchmarked W98se in several configurations and they believe W98 can't *actually* recognize/use anything over 128meg RAM, even though it does report on the "performance" tab whatever you actually have in Motherboard RAM slots. They say W98 tries to juggle RAM when it's over 128, and the benchmarck goes down to 40% of original at 512meg RAM... but how they described it was way over my bald head. That's why I spent all last weekend changing wife's 'puter OS to W2000Pro, but I have so much stuff on mine I'd eat dirt before I'd reformat and reload. Anyway, you might try the MS Knowledge Base page...... :D
"Error Messages"... Someone more versed will probably tell you exactly what the problem is, but... I had a similar "take a hike" message during a recent install of W2000Pro. I wrote it down exactly, then went to the MS Knowledge base/discussion page for W2000Pro, entered the phrase into the query box, and bing-bang-boom, here comes three pages of print that told me how to go to two or three dozen system locations, delete about that many instances of another driver program I had, and whadaya think, it fixed the problem. Also, my ISP guys say they benchmarked W98se in several configurations and they believe W98 can't *actually* recognize/use anything over 128meg RAM, even though it does report on the "performance" tab whatever you actually have in Motherboard RAM slots. They say W98 tries to juggle RAM when it's over 128, and the benchmarck goes down to 40% of original at 512meg RAM... but how they described it was way over my bald head. That's why I spent all last weekend changing wife's 'puter OS to W2000Pro, but I have so much stuff on mine I'd eat dirt before I'd reformat and reload. Anyway, you might try the MS Knowledge Base page...... :D
i did entered the whole phrase exactly in the query box but it returned no results.. well, thanks for your answer. i find it out that its on my cmos/bios setting under Intergrated Peripherals and set Init Display First to PCI Slot, and it works fine now. i wander why i had to set it that way since my video is onboard... you mean using more than 128MB of RAM is useless on win98? why? is there a site you could recommend to read about maximizing memory on each OS or application to use old man?
disk defragmentation removes the bad_sectors of your drives. but i have this experience using disk defragmentation doesn't remove all the bad clusters in my drive which is suppose to be removed. but still, one way to remove bad_clusters in the drive is defrag. if it doesn't work try to re-format the drive. ;)
Hmm, that seems very odd to me. It implies that you have an AGP slot with something in it (which looks very unlikely), or the BIOS you are running has a bug.Quote:
Originally posted here by lex
i did entered the whole phrase exactly in the query box but it returned no results.. well, thanks for your answer. i find it out that its on my cmos/bios setting under Intergrated Peripherals and set Init Display First to PCI Slot, and it works fine now. i wander why i had to set it that way since my video is onboard... you mean using more than 128MB of RAM is useless on win98? why? is there a site you could recommend to read about maximizing memory on each OS or application to use old man?
I have a PC at home that runs fine with 384Mb of RAM under Windows98, and yes, I'm sure it does use it - even if only for things like the HD cache. Try starting System Monitor (or any other tools you may have), and see what happens when you run a memory hungry application. You don't need to run additional software to get the benefits of extra RAM under Windows98 - most of the tweaks make no difference.
There is an upper limit (>512Mb I believe, and could be 4Gb), before Windows98 gets it's knickers in a twist, and starts doing strange things.
I agree that defrag does give your HD a good workout. However, all that defrag does is to read and then write data back to your HD. This will work as it will avoid bad sectors, but the data you get written back could be damaged (depends on whether or not it read the original version of the data correctly).Quote:
Originally posted here by protocool
disk defragmentation removes the bad_sectors of your drives. but i have this experience using disk defragmentation doesn't remove all the bad clusters in my drive which is suppose to be removed. but still, one way to remove bad_clusters in the drive is defrag. if it doesn't work try to re-format the drive. ;)
Scandisk works by by writing data to every sector and reading back the data it has just written to check that the sector is OK. If you get an error from scandisk this indicates that some sectors on your HD do not work. This in turn indicates that your HD is probably on its last legs - one bad sector is perhaps acceptable. What will happen in the near future is that when you try and read data, you will get a corrupt result, causing all sorts of weird problems.
And I've seen a few of these weird problems :D