Bad sectors on the hard drive; help to isolate or repair

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• y at - it another program which marks bad sectors on the hard drive, so I can continue to use my hard drive?

  Windows 7 does not support fdisk more is what im saying.  y at - it another program which marks bad sectors on the hard drive, so I can continue to use my hard drive?

  OT:

  Fdisk

  Hello

  Running checkdisk (chkdsk) will mark bad sectors. Utility of these manufacturers
  It will be even better.

  Check the hard disk for errors, health, bad sectors in Windows 7 / 8 / 10
  http://www.thewindowsclub.com/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors-in-Windows

  Bad sectors explained: why hard drives get bad sectors and what you can do about it
  http://www.howtogeek.com/173463/bad-sectors-explained-why-hard-drives-get-bad-sectors-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

  The manufacturer Diagnostic utilities.

  (The old 302602 links isn't now valid for Diagnostics links).

  Manufacturer diagnostic utilities - run one to your hard drive
  http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/hard-drive-support/462298-no-IDE-device-found.html

  Corrected list dated 06/09/2010

  Fujitsu hard drives: utility of diagnosis here
  http://www.Fujitsu.com/EMEA/products/HDD/

  Hitachi hard drives: utility of diagnosis here
  http://www.HitachiGST.com/support/downloads/

  IBM hard drives: use Hitachi utility *.

  Toshiba hard drives: use Hitachi or Maxtor utilities

  Maxtor hard drives: Diagnostic Utilities here (now SeaGate)
  http://www.Seagate.com/www/en-us/support/

  Quantum hard drives: use the Maxtor utilities

  Seagate hard drives: here Diagnostic utilities
  http://www.Seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads

  Conner hard drives: use the Seagate utilities

  Hard drives Samsung: utility of diagnosis here
  http://www.Samsung.com/global/business/HDD/

  Hard drives Western Digital: utility of diagnosis here
  http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?lang=en
  Trial versions of one of these 'might' help.

  SpeedFan
  http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

  HD Tune
  http://www.hdtune.com/

  I hope this helps.
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  Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP<- profile="" -="" windows="" experience :="" bicycle="" -="" mark="" twain="" said="" it="">

• Satellite L20-214 - isolate bad sectors on the HARD drive?

  Dear Sir

  My laptop fell off my table leading to serious hard drive problems. The hard drive now has some bad sectors that can be repaired with the chkdsk command. I managed to get my data on an external hard drive. Despite the bad sectors, I can reinstall it however from the recovery cd. Starting after that time consuming (1.5 hours) and after starting Windows I get the error messages from programs that cannot be started. It's the same thing after each reinstall. My guess is that the recovery disk writes data on the same spot every time both on bad sectors.

  I was wondering if theres a way to fix or even isolate bad sectors on the disk, so I can continue to use my laptop.

  Your help is very appreciated.

  Hello

  You can try HDD Regenerator 1.61 (HDD Regenerator is a unique program for regeneration of physically damaged hard disk drives. It does not hide bad sectors, it really restores them).
  However, the best way is to buy a new hard drive :)

• Bad sectors on the hard drive

  My neighbor's daughter brought me his cell phone more, g6-1d20ca model. It does not start. There is a loop on the text of recovery. I ran my "CD Boot" (Hiren s) on this topic and saw that the hard drive was littered with bad sectors. The HD is obviously toast. My Question: Is - this acceptable once I replaced the HD to load my version of Win 7 64 bit on his cell phone, but the use of its Windows product key? The part of the recovery of the HD is inaccessible. It's never the disks when she bought the laptop. I then download the drivers and others on the HP website. Is this legally possible?

  Forward to your response.

  Yes, as long as your version corresponds to its key. Like Home Premium.

  You can order a recovery media for about $17 (I ordered last time) of his models support page:

  http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?OS=4063&LC=en&cc=us&DLC=en&sw_lang=&product=5223311

• When you run a system scan for errors or bad sectors on the hard drive it creates a log file

  If so where is it stored

  Vista Home Premium

  Hello

  CHKDSK (short for Checkdisk)-<-- see="" the="" vista="" log="">
  http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/chkdsk

  How to read the log of the event viewer to check disk (chkdsk) in Windows
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/96938-check-disk-chkdsk-read-Event-Viewer-log.html

  Journal of checkdisk is EventViewer which is easy to read with the 2nd utility here.

  Look in the Event Viewer to see the newspaper.
  http://www.computerperformance.co.UK/Vista/vista_event_viewer.htm

  Control Panel - Classic view - administrative tools - event - left panel - Windows logs Viewer-
  under the above - click on request - in the scroll of the middle column the list indicating the Source-
  Click Wininit - right panel - event Wininit - click event properties - new window will open
  with the journal you want. Scroll as needed. Event ID is 1001.

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  If you clear the log before planning checkdisk it is easier to find, however by time
  and Date should be pretty easy.

  MyEventViewer - free - a simple alternative in the standard event viewer
  Windows. TIP - Options - Advanced filter allows you to see a time rather
  of the entire file.
  http://www.NirSoft.NET/utils/my_event_viewer.html

  I hope this helps.

  Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP<- profile="" -="" windows="" expert="" -="" consumer="" :="" bicycle="" -="" mark="" twain="" said="" it="">

• Bad sectors on the HARD disk in cell A10 satellite

  Hi all... I use Win XP on an A10 Satellite with 512 MB of Ram.
  The problem is that my pc is too slow after a format I did yesterday.

  After checking the hard drive found some bad sectors... do I have to replace the drive hard and how can I do?
  Do you know how much GB disk can use? Are there restrictions? Thank you!

  If your HARD drive is not dead then you need not to replace the HARD drive.
  Bad sectors can be repaired easily.

  I would recommend doing this;
  Start the console with the command: CMD
  You can then use the command chkdsk/p/r

  This should help.
  There are a lot of programs that could help to repair the HARD drive.
  Google for "HARD drive repair", "HDDBadSectorRepair. The two applications are useful.

• Satellite L500 - 19 X - bad sectors on my HARD drive?

  Hello world.
  I bought this Toshiba Satellite L500 - 19 X nine UK July 2010 (500 GB, 4 GB RAM). I was working well until March 2011, when he began to work more slowly and more slowly and eventually crashing, forcing me to do a clean install of Windows 7. I did it several times now, and now when I start it, CHKDISK comes intu action, wanting to check drive C for errors. If I allow it, he made it for about 5 hours, restarts and suddenly upward at the Windows logo. I had to format it when it reaches this stage, so now I cancel CHKDISK checking disk. It seems I have bad sectors on my computer causing this problem. Today, I tried to install Linux on a partition (4parititions in total) but he wouldn't get away, it freezes.

  Please help me, what I do with it.

  Thanks in advance,
  Frank.

  Hey,.

  I agree with the user above. If your laptop has guaranteed valid contact the nearest authorized service provider:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com > support & downloads > find an authorized service provider

  Other Exchange the HARD disk yourself because it s not very delicate. It takes 5 to 10 minutes only ;)

• bad sectors on the hard disk, can't find programs or files

  Has worked on my Toshiba laptop and all of a sudden I got these error messages from Windows on bad sectors, cannot find the files...

  Well, I am unable to find programs or files... well explore works and it seem like windows must work because the computer starts.  I have

  did a scan of spybots and of course we found a few things but that's all.

  I had to start a new user account in order to have access to my hard drive and be able to do some repairs... He showed sound quite complete but unable to show all files or these.

  Tried a restore back a week, but it did not work.  A check on the hard disk and say he can do so that the system is in use.  I have nothing running!

  Don't know what to do next... any suggestions

  Thank you for posting a copy of a report of chkdsk on your C partition select Start, run, type "cmd" without the quotes in the box and press ENTER. Type chkdsk, and then press the ENTER key and a report, stating, among other things, a summary of how disk space is used, is provided. If you want a report on a partition or one drive other than C, you need to go to this partition. To access F, where F is the required partition you type F: and press the ENTER key.

  Copies of the reports from a command prompt can be tricky. Right click and select mark. This allows to highlight the selected text, and then click on copy. You will then open Word, Notepad or similar file, right click and paste. The selected text transfers your Clipboard to open the file. You can paste directly into a response message to the majority of the forums.

• upgrade of Windows 8, reformatted the HARD drive, help

  So I got windows 7 on my computer and I bought upgrade of windows 8.

  Well my HARD drive died yesterday so I had to go buy a new one. So I installed windows 8, is not thinking that it was only one upgrade key.
  Is there a way to get around this? I don't really need to install the windows 7 just to install windows 8 = \

  Windows 8 - the phone Activation

  How to activate Windows 8 by phone

  Press the Windows key + x then click Run, then type: slui.exe 4
  (Another method: press Windows + r and then type: slui.exe 4)

  Then press the ENTER"" key.

  Select your "country" in the list.

  Choose the option "activate phone".

  Stay on the phone * do not select/press any option * and wait for a person to help you.

  Explain your problem clearly to the support person.

  ================= Alternatives ===================================

  How and when to contact Microsoft and support Customer Service:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/295539
  Clearly explain your problem to the support person and they will transfer you to the activation service

  How to contact a Microsoft Product Activation Center by phone:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950929

  To get a list of telephone numbers see method #1

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• Satellite P10-304: bad sectors on the disk - how to fix?

  My drive HARD drive bad sectors developed and replacement needs, does anyone know how to do this?

  My model is a P10-304.

  In addition, Windows will not start upward in my old HDD because of bad sectors and the drive is protected by Norton and back, does anyone know how to bypass or disable round trip

  Hello

  I found these tips how to disable the Norto Go Back tool.
  You can uninstall it from your computer, disable GoBack to your laptop press 'space' GoBack screen button and select the option "disable" GoBack.

  Follow these steps:
  1. reboot your computer.
  2. when the Norton GoBack splash screen appears, press the SPACEBAR.
  3. in the Norton GoBack boot menu, click on disable.
  A message informs you that disable Norton GoBack erases history and you will not be able to run the hard drive or hard disk restore advanced restore until Norton GoBack is turned back on.
  4. click on Yes.
  5. click on continue.
  Your computer restarts automatically, and Norton GoBack is off
  After restarting the laptop, I recommend once again using the following key: CTRL + ALT + G.
  Immediately press on and hold the keys Ctrl + Alt + G after restarting the laptop you. A message you giving the possibility to force the removal of GoBack master boot record. Press F to force the removal of GoBack master boot record.

  If failure of keys Ctrl + Alt + G in the first time then try this again for three or four times until you get the prompt to remove the master boot record of GoBack.
  Finally, restart the computer.

  To fix bad sectors on the HARD drive, you could boot from the XP CD to use the console of "repair".
  And then use the CHKDSK /p command to repair the bad sectors.

  Good luck

• P7-1490 Pavilion saying that the hard drive needs to be repaired or replaced

  Could Netflix streaming on the computer and look at the poster on the monitor have shortened the life expectancy of the hard drive at all?  Otherwise, I do not use the computer that much, and I'm surprised that the drive lasted only 1 1/3 years.  What part of a computer using streaming more?  The processor, hard drive, both?

  No, I sincerely doubt that the photos could cause such a problem.

  If the drive is empty, do a full format (not quick format) to make it clean.

  Just to be sure, it will be useful if you could do a bad sector scan.

  Here is a link to help you with bad sectors.

  http://www.howtogeek.com/173463/bad-sectors-explained-why-hard-drives-get-bad-sectors-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

  When cross you again the problem, bring it to a HP service center and fix it.

  Have a good!

• I bought a whole new office 27 "Mac provided with Adobe CS6. Everything worked like a charm until the 1 TB hard drive, developed a bad sector and the Apple Store reinstalled a new I had extended warranty with them. The recycled player I

  I bought a whole new office 27 "Mac provided with Adobe CS6. Everything worked like a charm until the 1 TB hard drive, developed a bad sector and the Apple Store reinstalled a new I had extended warranty with them. They are recycled the disc immediately (like crazy, I don't ask for this return to get the data off it.) But fortunately, I have all my data on CrashPlan. I downloaded it and it was working fine except that I downloaded it on the desk and not the original location so he had succeed. I also have an external 1.5 TB drive that I wanted to make it bootable, so I installed Mavericks 10.9.3. Then I advanced and installed on disk newly installed too.

  I think that because I have a new reader that adobe thinks, I have a new computer. I bought the 27 "Mac new on Ebay and it came loaded with the software, including CS6. I have a serial number for CS6, but Adobe says that it was not valid. (I've owned CS2 and CS4 now CS6 that came preloaded on the Mac by the seller who told me that the software has been registered for the Mac?

  I'll re - download the backup to the original location but this time (I still don't think that it will work with Adobe.) What can I do about it?

  iMac 27 inches, end of 2012

  Processor 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5

  Memory 32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

  Graphics  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1024 MB 675MX

  Software  OS X 10.9.3 (13D 65) @.

  You must contact Adobe Support by chat or phone when you have the serial number and activation problems.

  Here is a link to a page with options to help make contact:

  http://www.Adobe.com/support/download-install/supportinfo/

• the hard drive of my dell xps 420 has been removed nothing has been saved. my computer is now junk, or my data can be recovered? Need help real bad

  About two years ago, some so-called friends takes my computer to my home. He truned into a question of law. I finally got it back. However they took the hard drive. And I'm almost 100% sure that nothing has been saved. where should I go from here, the computer is any good? This P.C. I encrypted a $ 1000.00. What should I do?

  Hello

  You can get a new hard drive and reinstall Windows on it.

  Check with the manufacturer of system for options.

  If it will run Windows 7, which would be the best option.

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  If they were under a court order to return the computer of course sounds like they should have to
  Return it with a drive hard and in good condition. Mybe not because I don't know any of the details.

  I hope this helps.

  Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP<- profile="" -="" windows="" expert="" -="" consumer="" :="" bicycle="" -="" mark="" twain="" said="" it="">

• I deleted the boot camp trying to resize the hard drive on my mac pro book. now, the computer does not start without a bootable device, which I don't have, and any download must be on a windows machine. Can anyone help

  I deleted the boot camp trying to resize the hard drive on my mac pro book. now, the computer does not start without a bootable device, which I don't have, and any download must be on a windows machine. Can anyone help

  1. did you remove Bootcamp using disk utility?

  2 have you tried local restore or recovery of the Internet? - OS X: on OS X Recovery - Apple Support . Mac with built-in optical drives may need 'Gray' disks to boot the system.

• 1297cb HP P7: lack of response from the hard drive or windows 7 to my monitor help

  Greetings.  I have a HP P7 1297cb, all original material except the memory and hard drive.

  Original OS at home, is now Pro.
  I thought that my hard drive has expired and bought a new WD 2 TB black.
  And I don't have the other HDD cause I already threw out.
  
  So, here I am.   I installed the WD Black again and nothing.  Monitor powers and that's it.
  I get a hard drive light to everything first, about 5 to 10 seconds and off.  Touch HD and feels light low race.
  All fans and fees lights.  Power light on.
  
  No NumLock or number lock lights.  Œuvres and key/monitor / mouse, as I am with them now.
  
  Shot four sticks of 2 GB memory and get the beep.  One at a time plugged in no beeps and back in.
  You use a Windows 7 Pro disk rebuild for installation.  When the computer starts, I tried F10, F12 and nothing.
  I even pulled the mobo battery for a few seconds.
  I disconnected the power supply cord (pc) and held in the power button for about 30 seconds.
  I even turned on with the installation disc in and waited (until at least 20 minutes) to see if the screen would change nothing.
  I am willing to check the cpu, which remains the only thing to check, I'm guessing that about it.
  I get no beep or beeps when the pc starts.
  
  So, I guess also, that my problem was not the hard drive in the first place. ???
  Thanks in advance for any help.

  gwolfman

  Hello;
  
  Let me welcome you on the HP forums!
  
  I don't know what a "Windows 7 Pro Rebuild disk'- so I don't know if it's any bootable media.

  Unless you changed the default device sequence in the start section of the configuration of the BIOS, it will look at the HDD FIRST and since it is empty, the PC will simply sit there - nothing to do.

  So, you must get to a boot device selection screen to boot from the DVD of Win7.

  The typical ways of doing are to press F9 or F12 - one of them will be implemented a unique boot device selection menu.  Then, you select the DVD drive and the PC should then restart.

  It can display a line of text at the top of the screen, something like «press any key to boot from...» "If Yes, press the space bar.

  If the DVD is good, the PC will then start on the initial screen for the installation of Windows.

  Good luck