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how to fix bad secors of my hard dish

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how to fix bad sectors in my hard disk

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You can't, you only can mark them as bad and the system will not use them but they WILL spread (literally like cancer). I suggest you grab a new HDD ASAP. Be sure your backups are up to date.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#2

like actionparsnip said, you can't fix bad sectors. you can only mark them as bad.

depending on who disk manufacturer is, you might be able to get a program from their site that will mark the bad sectors as unusable. however, the program will be for dos/windows. if you don't have dos or windows, it won't matter. some of the manufacturers will provide a copy of pc-dos which allows you to install and run the program from a floppy.

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