Repair Bad Sectors, HELP!

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?

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Reply to slim142

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

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Reply to slim142

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

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Reply to slim142

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

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Reply to Shadow703793

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

Good Luck!

Reply to Fleelex

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/

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Reply to Shadow703793

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!

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Reply to slim142

any other help is still welcome

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Reply to slim142

have you try the scandisk???

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Reply to boner

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!

Message edited by ejay on 12-05-2007 at 01:34:15 AM

Reply to ejay

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.

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Reply to slim142

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.

Reply to bc4

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

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Reply to slim142

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.

Message edited by praeses on 12-06-2007 at 01:13:41 AM

Reply to praeses

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

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Reply to Shadow703793

Hey slim142, HDD Regen. 151 more then likely repaired your bad sectors, but only to the point that you can access the data by slaving it and not booting off of it. I've used HDD reg. 151 many of times and find in a worst case scenario where it it effective you have to slave it to access and recover and data.

Reply to o0RaidR0o

I don't know if this is of any value, but it looks like the MFT is mirrored on the disk and may be recoverable. This assumes the drive isn't failing completely.

ntfsdoc.pdf

Quote :

4.2. Notes
4.2.1. Other information
Everything is a file in NTFS. The index to these files is the Master File Table (MFT). The MFT lists the
Boot Sector file ($Boot), located at the beginning of the disk. $Boot also lists where to find the MFT.
The MFT also lists itself.
Located in the centre of the disk, we find some more Metadata files. The interesting ones are:
$MFTMirr and $LogFile. The MFT Mirror is an exact copy of the first 4 records of the MFT. If the
MFT is damaged, then the volume could be recovered by finding the mirror. The LogFile is journal of
all the events waiting to be written to disk. If the machine crashes, then the LogFile is used to return the
disk to a sensible state.
Hidden at the end of the volume, is a copy of the boot sector (cluster 0). The only Metadata file that
makes reference to it is $Bitmap, and that only says that the cluster is in use.

Reply to Zorg

There is a difference between bad sectors and data corruption. If Windows CHKDSK is saying that the MFT is damaged, that's not necessarily indicative of bad sectors.

What you need to do is recover the readable files on the drive without trying to mess with the drive in it's current state, in case it really is going bad.

GetDataBack for NTFS is the proper tool to use for this recovery. It will recover as much information from your drive as is possible. Until you can use this, STOP using the drive and attempting to use other tools on it - you'll likely only make the data harder to recover.

GetDataBack is a free download, but not a free program. It will run in free mode and show you what it can recover. You can then pay, register it, and activate the recovery. At $79, it's far cheaper than professional data recovery services.

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Reply to SomeJoe7777

Hardware problems generally require hardware solutions. If it's that important you should seriously consider a professional recovery service and be prepared to cough up around $1000 with no guarantee that anything will be recovered.

Reply to rodney_ws

Thanks everybody for the help. Really appreciate. And yes next time Im doing backups, this thing is making me go crazy.

Well after going to ntfs.com I concluded that Active@ File Recovery might be the right solution. Unfortunately for me, my RAM died the day I was scanning the drive (it was at 15%), got an BSoD and turned out that my RAM was defectvive. Im glad it happened there and not later because while recovering my data it would have been worse.

Anyways, Im planning to RMA my RAM and then start the SuperScan from File Recovery and see if it recovers anything.

If for any reason it fails, then I will use GetDataBack for NTFS. After that, the only thing to do is to send it to Seagate Recovery File Service to see what they can do. Then Im screwed.

Something I learned from this

1)Always have backups
2)As soon as you find a bad sector, stop using the drive
3)Fixing the bad sectors doesnt mean continue using the drive

4 and Most importantly, Seagate is not getting my money for their drives anymore. Looking towards Samsung.

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Reply to slim142

Repairing bad blocks is not a secret and it could be down via some tools. When having bad sectors on your digital devices like usb drive, hard disk drive, it often brings data loss, unexpected malfunction...

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