coucou Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Hello, I have a hard drive that I suspect has bad sectors. I formatted it (all data erased) and before reusing it, I want to check it. I was interested in Minitool Partition Wizard 11.6 Disk Surface Test. This Surface test scans the disk, all sectors without errors are marked in green, bad sectors will be marked in red. For bad sectors use specific software to shield bad tracks I found these 2 apps: HDD Low Level Format tool and DiskGenius Professional. There are certainly other tools. What tool would you recommend to repair/mark the bad tracks/sectors ? Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neofita Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Sir, all the programs you said go well, as well as HDDScan or Macrorit Disk Scanner, to diagnose bad sectors. To repair them is another story. Repairing bad PHYSICAL sectors is impossible IMHO. Repairing bad LOGICAL sectors is good a simple chkdsk. HDSentinel has a section to repair, but in my case it failed. regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankl1n Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 2 hours ago, coucou said: For bad sectors use specific software to shield bad tracks I found these 2 apps: HDD Low Level Format tool and DiskGenius Professional. There are certainly other tools. What tool would you recommend to repair/mark the bad tracks/sectors ? HDD Regenerator 2011 http://www.dposoft.net/hdd.html I have used this in the past and it worked for me, some say is voodoo but it worked for me on 3 separate occasions, 3 different drives. The link above is for homepage, the tool is not free, but I have a copy if you want. I can post for you if you would like to try it. Lemme know! Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phen0men4 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 SpinRite-v6.0-Release.1WinALL-Retail.001 SpinRite.v6.0.Release.0.WinALL.RETAIL-QUARTEX.001 I'll give you another option, you can't have too many tools:) SpinRite, coded in assembly language (170kb). These are full registered versions. The program is about 15-20 years old, still current! take your time and read and visit steve's website. (url below) Steve has started an update for full support with SSD, but one thing got in the way of this project and it was SQRL (Secure Quick Reliable Login) You can read more about SpinRite on his website. and when you are, download SQRL, a must have! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite https://www.grc.com/sr/smart.htm https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm https://www.grc.com/sr/faq.htm https://www.grc.com/sr/themovie.htm size: 170kb archive: *.001 (winrar) archive includes some old videos and manuals (16mb) Site: https://vshare.is Sharecode: /z203a3tbo8/SpinRite.v6.0.Release.0_1.Retail_001 . Site: https://anonfiles.com Sharecode: /hb2ea5tbo2/SpinRite.v6.0.Release.0_1.Retail_001 . Site: https://www68.zippyshare.com Sharecode: /v/yM141wvv/file.html Greets:) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arachnoid Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Id suggest scanning with the drive manufacturers software tools as they are specifically designed for their drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwa Piva Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 If it is an old harddisk, better buy a new one, unless you see fixing bad sectors as a hobby. Once in trouble there is good chance that an old harddisk stays in trouble.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coucou Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 Thank you all for your suggestions. The drive in question is a WD passport 2TB. In the past, I had scanned another WD disk with the WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic manufacturer tool: first, it is very slow (> 24 hours) and ineffective. I could buy a new disk but I'm curious, technically. So, I'm not necessarily trying to fix bad sectors but rather to mark them. So that they are no longer used. Among all the tools mentioned above, is there a quick tool that marks bad sectors? Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neofita Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 I would do a backup and then a chkdsk/f Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coucou Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 4 hours ago, neofita said: I would do a backup and then a chkdsk/f As I wrote here above, there is nothing to backup. I refort the disk I'm looking for a quick tool that marks bad sectors? Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankl1n Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 5 hours ago, coucou said: quick tool HD Regen that I suggested is slooooooooooooooow, so if you want fast dont use it. 5 hours ago, coucou said: WD passport I had one of those and it was a POS, just like the one you have! Toss it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neofita Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Sir what do you mean for "mark bad sectors"?? it's a nonsense, windows take care all by itself please open an elevated cmd and run chkdsk/r X: (X is your drive partition) go for a cup of coffee done regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coucou Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 3 hours ago, neofita said: Sir what do you mean for "mark bad sectors"?? it's a nonsense, windows take care all by itself please open an elevated cmd and run chkdsk/r X: (X is your drive partition) go for a cup of coffee done regards I am a former engineer. In the 80s, I repaired HDDs (at that time a 300 MB was the size of a washing machine). In short, we scanned the disk, and when it found a bad sector, we entered/marked it in the bad sectors table. So this bad sector was no longer used. Later this manipulation was done automatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coucou Posted May 1, 2020 Author Share Posted May 1, 2020 On 4/27/2020 at 9:14 AM, neofita said: Sir what do you mean for "mark bad sectors"?? it's a nonsense, windows take care all by itself please open an elevated cmd and run chkdsk/r X: (X is your drive partition) go for a cup of coffee done regards Hi all, I'm a little late ... I had to test, and it's very long. First I tested chkdsk/r X: This test lasted almost 24 hours ... for nothing. At the end, it return that "Windows scanned the file system without finding a problem." I finally installed DiskGenius Professional and start Verify my disk ... after> 24H it found 5 bad tracks and 1 track almost bad. Then it ask for repair, I clicked on Repair. Indeed, the disk has been repaired. I have REinstalled all my backups in it (about 1.5 TB). Retested again this morning ... everything lokks jus fine :D Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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