Bad sectors

Profile · Posted 2002-05-21, 02:40 PM

Does anyone know what to do to fix bad sectors, and not using scan disk?

tacoX · Posted 2002-05-21, 03:13 PM in reply to tacoX's post "Bad sectors"

low level format ?

tacoX · Posted 2002-05-21, 03:42 PM in reply to tacoX's post "Bad sectors"

Yes, open MS DOS and type "MakeWindowsPerfect 1" without the quotes. Microsoft forgot to mention this feature to prevent your comp from crashing, but I guess they can't be blamed. After all, they tend to hand us high quality products like Access and Excel.

tacoX · Posted 2002-05-21, 04:01 PM in reply to tacoX's post "Bad sectors"

are u out of ur damn mind? makewindowsperfect? HA i cant believe u tried to be serious about that

tacoX · Posted 2002-05-21, 04:12 PM in reply to tacoX's post "Bad sectors"

lol it was pretty good tho. im gonna die if he comes back here and sez he tried that

tacoX · Posted 2002-05-22, 05:53 AM in reply to tacoX's post "Bad sectors"

Ok, nevermind, I got this problem fixed after 12 hours of running scan disk, so its all good now.

tacoX · Posted 2002-05-22, 07:12 AM in reply to tacoX's post "Bad sectors"

In my experience, bad sectors grow. It is my suggestion that if you have a hard drive with bad sectors that you buy a new one and transfer the contents in the near future.

But you already knew that, right?
--WetWired

tacoX · Posted 2002-05-22, 10:45 AM in reply to tacoX's post "Bad sectors"

Yeah... or reformat.

tacoX · Posted 2002-05-22, 10:50 AM in reply to tacoX's post "Bad sectors"

Quote:

Yeah... or reformat.

Reformatting doesn't get rid of bad sectors, it just finds them and tells DOS/Windows not to use them.

Which is really just a band-aid solution if you have a gash out of one of the platters.
--WetWired

tacoX · Posted 2002-05-22, 10:52 AM in reply to tacoX's post "Bad sectors"

Well then I guess you'd just have to buy a new drive.

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