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Posted by Arthur Daily on 09-29-2008 05:58 PM:

Faulty

Anyone recommend a good Hard Drive Scanner?

My lappy has got some bad sectors, and whenever it tries to read/wright on that part of the HD
it Spazzes out on me.

The windows built in one ain't working for some reason..

i don't wanna recover any data, just scan and mark the bad sectors so windows don't use that part.
any ideas

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Posted by Neversoft on 09-29-2008 06:14 PM:

Grab GetDataBack Arthur - it's as good as they get

Posted by olskoolfife on 09-29-2008 07:34 PM:

hiren's boot cd has some stuff on it like hdd regenerator
probably other programs on it but can't remember

http://www.gold-software.com/download7605.html

Posted by lmao2k on 09-29-2008 08:02 PM:

If you know the manufacturer then download their tools for the drive. I'm pretty sure there will be a tool for scanning and marking the bad sectors.

Posted by Arthur Daily on 09-29-2008 11:07 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Neversoft
Grab GetDataBack Arthur - it's as good as they get

and this will mark bad sectors telling windoz not to use that part?

im looking at..

Runtime GetDataBack For NTFS v3.50
GetDataBack for NTFS Portable

what one you recomend?

quote:
Originally posted by olskoolfife
hiren's boot cd has some stuff on it like hdd regenerator

looks interesting.. ill check that out

quote:
Originally posted by lmao2k
If you know the manufacturer then download their tools for the drive. I'm pretty sure there will be a tool for scanning and marking the bad sectors.

yer its seagate, i had a fiddle with their SeaTools thing, and it seemed to just report errors but not fix em. ill give it another shot if the above fail.

thankx guys ill report back

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Posted by sloth1234 on 09-30-2008 12:20 AM:

I've heard a lot of good about SpinRite but I've never used it...I'm pretty sure it'll do everything you want though.

Posted by Neversoft on 09-30-2008 02:03 PM:

I don't think it matters much which of those versions of GetDataBack you try Arthur... Grab the portable one I guess, at least you don't need to install that (although the other says "runtime" so maybe that doesn't require installing either)

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