 Hard Drives, Recovery of Bad Scetors |
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 Nov 20 2004, 06:04 PM
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 Forum Regular  Group: Members Posts: 307 Joined: 16-November 04 From: Queensland, Australia. Member No.: 5,292  |
I have a few old hard dirves I would like to use for storage but they have bad clusters/sectors on them. Does anybody know of a program that will block these bad areas off and stop them being written to. This will effectivly reduce the size of the drives, I understand that, but I just don't like throwing hardware out if I can use it in some way ! I remember in Win95 or 98 days if you did a scan disk of a slave drive it did this for you. Thanks JTH 
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Nov 20 2004, 06:22 PM
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 helping hand Group: Members Posts: 1,700 Joined: 14-April 04 From: Texas Member No.: 150 |
I found a few links for you. I dont know if it will help, but maybe it will give you a direction to go.
talks about using format command PC Guide thread applications for specific HD makers -------------------- We are all curious like a cat. We wonder, we ask, we learn.
Please post back when a suggestion works, so that others may learn. |
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Nov 20 2004, 06:24 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 307 Joined: 16-November 04 From: Queensland, Australia. Member No.: 5,292 |
Thanks JEservices,
I'll take a look and let you know JTH 
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Nov 20 2004, 06:48 PM
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helping hand Group: Members Posts: 1,700 Joined: 14-April 04 From: Texas Member No.: 150 |
No problem
My friends call me Jason, so you may as well. -------------------- We are all curious like a cat. We wonder, we ask, we learn.
Please post back when a suggestion works, so that others may learn. |
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Nov 21 2004, 03:35 AM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 307 Joined: 16-November 04 From: Queensland, Australia. Member No.: 5,292 |
Hey Thanks Jason,
The last link helped a treat. Jack 
This post has been edited by JackTheHaack: Nov 21 2004, 03:36 AM -------------------- JTH
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Dec 6 2004, 12:20 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 331 Joined: 11-October 04 Member No.: 3,520 |
Not sure if this is right for your situation but Spinrite 5.0 Works wonders on HD's with bad sectors
One time i had a semi bad HD that Microsoft ScanDisk went through and Marked over 80% of the Drive bad Sectors I ran Spinrite 5.0 and 2 days later was back up and running made the HD only 3% Crupted Yeah yeah i know this post is late as always |
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