Step #6: Click on “ Start” button to initiate the disk checking and fixing process.

If the bad sectors are to be checked and fixed, disable the check box for “ Automatically fix file system errors”. Step #5: A dialog box named “ Check Disk” will appear on screen. Step #4: Move to the “ Error Checking” segment and select click on “ Check Now” button. Step #3: A window named “ Properties” will get opened. Step #2: Open Windows Explorer and select the logical drive (the partition) that is to be checked for bad sectors. You can use the system utility called Chkdsk to scan and repair bad sectors. Windows XP cannot repair the bad sectors if the application or any of its file is in use. Step #1: The very first step is to close all the programs (if opened). Ways to Repair Bad Sector in Hard Drive Steps to fix Bad Sectors in Windows XP and Windows 7 In this case, the OS cannot locate the data on hard drive, neither does any data can be read or written to it. A soft bad sector can be fixed using low-level system utilities like Chkdsk.

Logical/Soft Bad Sector: This type of bad sector can be fixed by mapping out the sector with the index in MTF file. Generally, a hard bad sector cannot be repaired. due to which the sector becomes physically damaged. This could be due to dust being settled on the sector, flash memory cell is worn out etc. Physical/Hard Bad Sector: It is the hard drive cluster that is physically damaged as a result of which the Operating System, Disk Controller cannot access it nor does any read /write operations can be performed on it. The bad sectors is the result of either physical damage (which is generally repairable) or due to software errors. What is a Bad Sector?Ī bad sector is the storage space on hard drive that has lost the potential to read or write requests. Although, the physical space is made up of tracks and sectors, the data actually gets saved on clusters. A boundary of rings is created around the hard disk which is called as tracks which are divided into sectors (according to the size of HDD). On a hard disk drive, the data gets saved on different storage compartments.

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