chisss Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Hello, What is the best software to scan and repair hard drive errors? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 philcruicks Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 command prompt does it just fine...most other just put a GUI over the top to make it more user friendly. just open cmd (might need to run as administrator if on vista or 7) type: chkdsk c: /r then hit enter c being the drive letter to scan /r makes it run a full 5 part check and repairs errors if it can. Note. to check your OS drive the computer will need to restart, just answer y to the questions cmd gives and then restart your pc. Phil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 deadite66 Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 spinrite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MS Bob 11 Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Hello, What is the best software to scan and repair hard drive errors? Thanks. As long as there are no physical bad sectors, HDD Regenerator takes the cake. It "repairs" bad sectors using magnetic reversal. Had worked brilliantly on one of my old HDDs. It claims a 60% bad sector repair rate for HDDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 chisss Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 Yah I used chkdsk but the drive is in bad shape... i just want to try to recover some data or at least have some sort of access to it. i can see the drive letter but when I click on it, it asks to format the drive. I think if I can get it to do a scan and fix sectors I should be able to see something. chkdsk is finding errors and trying to correct them, it's just taking a long time. it's not an issue with the drive itself as it has another partition and that's working fine. I don't hear any clicking noises or anything. it's just an f'ed up partition. Thanks all for the suggestions. i'll give them a try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 philcruicks Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 ah ok sorry, to recover data i've used Active@ before seemed to work ok, but it always depends on exactly whats wrong with the partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 agreenbhm Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Use the drive manufacturers provided diagnostic disk (usually downloadable on their website). Usually you can scan for and repair damaged sectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 chisss Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 So far I am running HDD Regen and seems to be working good... it's slow (probably because of how messed up the partition is) but it's finding and recovering all sectors so far... fingers crossed! if anything I'll give Active@ a try. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Warwagon MVC Posted March 8, 2010 MVC Share Posted March 8, 2010 spinrite Agree'd, should be your first and only choice. I've tried Hardware Regenerateor, but it never seems like it does a very graceful job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SyntaxError Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Yeah if you want to wait all week for results. Or has it been improved? Nevermind, I have 6.0 and it's slow as hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Raa Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Still takes a long time. To check and flag them - use chkdsk. To attempt to rebuild them, spinrite. TBH, if you have bad sectors, - warranty the drive, or replace it. Any drive with bad sectors is going to get more on it, and I hate non-reliable drives ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MeddleMan Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Thats true, bad sectors are like cancers. The longer you leave them, the bigger they become. But think of this problem as positive. At least you now have good reason to go out and get that 1 TB hard drive you;ve always wanted. (Although I would still be pi**ed if I had to throw away an otherwise perfectly working HDD for almost no reason :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Raa Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Too bad if it was a problem on my current 1TB drives then huh? Lucky i've got a pair of 2TBs sitting here ready to go in. Also lucky I don't have bad sectors... lol Love WD RE's :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 chisss Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 Yeah I stopped hdd regen an started spinrite. It's taking forever! Lol. It's only a 250GB drive. I'll keep I guys posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Warwagon MVC Posted March 8, 2010 MVC Share Posted March 8, 2010 Yeah I stopped hdd regen an started spinrite. It's taking forever! Lol. It's only a 250GB drive. I'll keep I guys posted. forever as in the time it takes to scan or to fix an sector? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 chisss Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 Hahaha you know what did it? TechTool Pro on my mac. Woohoo! I got everything back in no time (figuratively speaking). I can access the users folder tho I stopped Techtool after a little scan to see if it picked up on anything. There are still some errors but TTP is working on them right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 deadite66 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Yeah I stopped hdd regen an started spinrite. It's taking forever! depends on if you want it done quickly or you want it done right. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Draconian Guppy Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 spinrite FTW, it fixed 8 bad clusters in my OEM hd, took around 2 days :s But never had a problem afterwards :) Just be patient like deadlite66 says, get it done right :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 chisss Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 Yeah no. I had over 1000 bad clusters. If it took you 2 days to recover 8 clusters it will take me a lifetime to recover mine. Lol. Needless to say the hard drive will be disposed. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Draconian Guppy Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Chiss, but it's well worth it :) and not... It as 1tb disc so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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