Norton bad sector repair

Skip to main content. I have been regularly backing up my wife's computer with Norton Ghost 14 using scheduled back-ups and recently she told me the automatic back-ups had stopped. When I investigated this error, Ghost reported that there are bad sectors on the hard drive. I ran chkdsk with repairs. That didn't help with the bad sectors according to Norton Ghost error messages.

I know that I can check the box in the advanced settings to ignore bad sectors during the back up. I have done that just to make sure that she has a working back-up.

I also randomly found some pictures JPG's in her "My Pictures" folder that used to be viewable but now aren't. She has been having some other random software problems on her computer where programs lock up. Because of that and the Norton Ghost error messages, I decided to do a complete reformat of her hard drive and reinstall the OS from scratch NOT re-image the drive.

While doing the re-format, when I deleted the partitioned space and created a new partition, I noticed that there was an additional 10 GB of unpartitioned space that I could not get lumped together with the rest of the hard drive.

My assumption for this was that it was due to the "Bad Sectors" of the hard drive. You can use a third party bad sector repair software to easily complete this operation.

This bad sector repair tool can launch CMD. The following example will show you the specific steps of repairing bad sectors in Windows computer:. Step 1. Step 2. In the pop-up window, select the way of checking errors to perform. Step 3. After that, you will see the window below. Till now, you know how to easily check and repair bad sectors. You have to go into disk management and initialize the drive first then the computer will recognize it and set it up.

Hello Aurhor, I read this article, you described so deeply. Because of that particular section is in accessible, it can cause the operating system to crash Blue Screen of Death, aka BSOD , files missing for no reasons or frequent application crashing. It is right because it generally become the cause of data loss. It may be several reason for that. As per concern data one more point, I would like to share about data recovery software.

During research I found that there are software available online that are very helpful if some lost data during this update, they can recover easily. My HD is wd gb I used Ease us program and more than bad sectors are found.

The disk was formatted but still the computer ask to format it. Any how the message HDd failure is impediment had disappeared after using Ease us disk partion. If I delete a file written on a bad sector before doing a bad sector scan, will windows continue to throw the new files into the same sector, or is it no longer used by windows because it is marked as bad sector? So to briefly, does deleting a file on a marked bad sector cause windows to confuse and throw a new file there?

If I delete a file written on a bad sector after doing a bad sector scan, will it continue to throw the new files into the same sector, or is it no longer used by windows because it is marked as bad sector? I did the chkdsk repair on it, took 26 hours.

I had previously taken a screenshot and complete file list of it a week before, not knowing it was going to start acting up. Your email address will not be published. Ngan Tengyuen [ Reply ]. Normally, windows will just ignore the bad sector. XYZ [ Reply ].

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