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

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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

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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.

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

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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.

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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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