- Mar 25, 2014
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I have a 500 gig 2.5" SATA drive on which I know are some bad spots.
I want to QUICKLY scan it and mark the bad sectors without wasting any time on recovery attempts. There's nothing on the drive and it's been given a quick format. If I try a full format it fails partway through. Attempting to recover bad sectors will just waste a lot of time.
Windows 10's check from the GUI has been nerfed. You don't get to make it scan a drive for bad spots unless Windows has determined there may be a problem. To get CHKDSK in an elevated command prompt to *look* for bad sectors requires the /R switch, which also makes it waste time fruitlessly attempting to *recover* the data in them.
I want something that goes along doing its test "Oh! This one's bad. I'll mark it bad and, NEXT!"
Once I know where the bad zone is, I can partition it right up close to that. Won't be using the drive for anything 'mission critical'.
I want to QUICKLY scan it and mark the bad sectors without wasting any time on recovery attempts. There's nothing on the drive and it's been given a quick format. If I try a full format it fails partway through. Attempting to recover bad sectors will just waste a lot of time.
Windows 10's check from the GUI has been nerfed. You don't get to make it scan a drive for bad spots unless Windows has determined there may be a problem. To get CHKDSK in an elevated command prompt to *look* for bad sectors requires the /R switch, which also makes it waste time fruitlessly attempting to *recover* the data in them.
I want something that goes along doing its test "Oh! This one's bad. I'll mark it bad and, NEXT!"
Once I know where the bad zone is, I can partition it right up close to that. Won't be using the drive for anything 'mission critical'.
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