utility for removing bad sector

Hi,

The responses on the following question in a different forum pretty much spell it out.... Take a look at

http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/20196.html

Cheers,
Tim.

My guess is that you are being prompted to do a surface scan by scandisc on your windows op system??? except for being slow it is capable of doing the job. once the bad sector is found and marked, data will no longer be put on this sector of your hard drive. scan disc is free and will do the job in most circumstances.

That being said, sectors going bad on a hard drive may be signs of worse things to come.. one bad sector, (If it's the right sector) can bring down your system. when i start having problems like this i usually relegate the HD to data storage and buy a new primary drive.

Go to http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/
and browse the links to either download a disk utility (SeaTools Desktop) or Have your drive checked online (SeaTools Online). You can also download a manual for SeaTools Desktop there.

electrojolt

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