[guispeak] Re: marking the bad sectors in the hdd

  • From: "Crabb, Nolan" <Nolan.Crabb@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:49:36 -0600

Can you not run the program chkdsk?  I'm not sure whether it marks bad
sectors or not, but I suspect it does.
 
I generally run
 
chkdsk /f (fixes errors)
 
I'd be surprised to learn that chkdsk doesn't mark bad sectors.  
 
 

Nolan Crabb
Rehabilitation Services for the Blind
615 Howerton Ct., P.O. Box 2320
Jefferson City, MO 65102-2320
(573) 751-4788
(800) 592-6004 (toll-free)

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        From: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bharat Bhardwaj
        Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 10:12 PM
        To: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: [guispeak] marking the bad sectors in the hdd
        
        
        hi all,
        i have an 80 gigs hdd with some bad sectors on it. i want to
mark the bad sectors in this hdd & separate them so that the rest of the
hdd should become
        usable. could you please suggest me a software for doing this or
any other way i could do it?? it's extremely urgent!! please help!!
            thanks,
            bye,
            bharat.
        
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