I need to know of the best program out there that lets you repair bad sectors on hard drives. I have already tried HDD Regenerator 1.51 and SeaTools but they couldnt help at all.

Is there anything better?

please is really important!!!!!!!!!!!

Just any good program that fixes bad sectors with all the hopes from the world...

Download UBCD, then use the "HDD Options" and select the appropriate manufacture, do a low level format. YOU WILL LOSE ALL DATA!!!!

You could try Spinrite 6 http://www.grc.com/sr/testimonials.htm

Good Luck!

Like i said before download UBCD and do a low level for mat of the drive. If it is a Seagate drive you can use SeaTools (DOS) to do the formating.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/s [...] /seatools/
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

I need something that will repair it without making me lose my data! I cant format, is there any solution? SeaTools already repaired the errors it found but I still cant access the HDD.

Will try that Spinrite 6 but I really need something that will do its best to bring back my HDD without losing any data!

Thanks for the help guys!

any other help is still welcome

have you try the scandisk???

Fleelex is right on target. Spinrite 6.0 will do a non-destructive overlay of your hard drive and in many instances will allow you to recover any valuable data you have on the drive.

Edit: Spinrite 6.0 will allow you to create a boot CD to accomplish this task.

Good Luck!

Well, when I turn the computer on, it says Chkdsk needs to check drive D and it starts the counter, after it it says the following

MFT is damaged, scan aborted...

And Chkdsk in WxP is not the same one as win98, remember how u opened scandisk and it was like a program, in xp is a DOS window so I dont really know how to use it that way.

I need to recuperate the data in this drive otherwise I dont know what im gonna do.

ntsf.com I've used some of their software before and it will scan and rebuild your boot record and let you transfer the data (that is recoverable) off of the failing drive.

I'm not sure the exact version I used but it did recover most of my files. Took about 7 hours for a 200 gb drive in a usb 2.0 enclosure

Good luck. Let us know if it works and BACK UP.

Thanks bc, that sounds like a good program.

Also I have to mention, there is a certain point in which HDD Regenerator and Spinrite slow down (like at 68%), there is this weird sound coming from the HDD that repeats itself and the programs start going super slow. I dont know why it slows down the checking.

Gonna try ntsf.com asap, thanks

After you do manage to recover the data you may want to take a peak at the drive itself to see if it is indeed corrupted as it may provide a window to why it occured.

You cannot really "fix" bad sectors, although sometimes they sectors are marked bad due to logical or software problems, rather than physical problems. DBAN is a great piece of free software that is designed to wipe your harddrive but scans it thoroughly on the way. If there is physical problems though, it will thrash it pretty bad. Its included in a self booting iso available from sysresccd.org. You can get it on its own but that cd image comes with a plethora of valuable tools.

Hit the F1-X keys for more information at the boot: prompt.

Thats why you need to have a back copy of your files