How to remove Bad sectors from Hard Disk
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Iazher
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How to remove Bad sectors from Hard Disk
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Hello i have a spear hard disk of 20 GB which have some badsectors in it. It is working fine and bad sectors are marked but probelm is that i want to sell it and no one is buying the Hdisk due to its bad sectors.

Plz can someone tell me the procedure to completely remove these bad sector so that they even not shown in scandisk.

Thanks in Advance

Irfan Azher
ASKED: Dec 26 2004  6:44 PM GMT
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Depending on the disk vendor, there are usually tools which can be downloaded at the vendor site. Usually these tools will do diagnostics for any type of drive but only the tool built by the maker of the drive will allow it to be reconfigured or changed. The problem that I think you will have with bad sectors is that it may require you to write zeros to wipe them out (if it is able to wipe them out that is...)

One example of a disk diagnostic tool is found here:

http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/support/hard-drives/software_utilities.html

This is by Fujitsu but there are others through nearly all vendors within their support downloads for Hard Disk drives. This is also assuming that you are dealing with an IDE drive as SCI will work differently.
Last Answered: Dec 26 2004  7:05 PM GMT by BlacKnight   0 pts.
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brutusbrighteyes   0 pts.  |   Dec 26 2004  7:15PM GMT

Drive is junk - pitch it!

 

jagdish   60 pts.  |   Dec 26 2004  10:46PM GMT

I dont know whether this will work, but you can give a try, First take a bakup of data. I am not sure what type of BIOS you have or what type of Disk you have.
You can go to the BIOS Settings, and try to format the harddisk from the BIOS. This is a lowlevel formatting. This may remove the bad sectors logically. However, if the disk is having physical damage, then it is good to discard it.
Regards
Jagdish

 

masterlarry   0 pts.  |   Dec 26 2004  11:47PM GMT

Depending on where the bad sectors are located on the disk, it may or may not interfere with the OS or programs people intend on using it for. Kinda sounds to me like you arent being honest and trying to sell bad goods. I’m sure selling a hard disk with “some” bad sectors, again depending on location of bad sectors and OS etc, shouldint be that hard. Be honest, get what you can but make sure people understand what their getting. And be upfront about it, don’t wait for them to discover it on their own. Honesty works, try it.

 

melchizedek   0 pts.  |   Dec 27 2004  8:08AM GMT

In my opinion.
Every hard dreive has ‘bad sectors’
It appears that when the drive was fully functional and running it was ‘jarred’ creating the ‘bad sectors’ because pre-existing ‘bad sectors’ are marked and managed by manufacturer (Q&A) before shipping.
Use the tool “GDISK” if you can find it, and wipe drive then use the DoD (Department of Defense) feature to clean drive up.
Also remember, its a 20gb drive that is worth in my estimation $20-$30. For perspective, I threw out an 80 gb Maxtor which was brand new…OK…accidentally…but the point is your time and the effort of others does not equate to the resolution.
Do as was suggested before..tell the buyers that it has bad sectors and take the first offer.

 
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