Fix Hard Disk with Bad Sector

Continuing the previous article "Hard Disk Conditions Check Your Computer", this article will discuss about how to improve if the hard disk bad sector affected. If you do not understand what it is and how bad sector hardisk check conditions, then please read the article.

Bad Sector in the disk in general there are 2 types of mechanical / physical and software. Bad mechanical sector, such as surface plates, namely a data storage hard drive is physically damaged due to eg scratches, dust, loud impact, and so forth. Meanwhile, bad sector software can occur when hard drives are busy sudden death, drop out of cash and so forth.

For Bad Sector in the form of physical damage (mechanical), then it is outside this discussion, as it usually can not (very difficult) fixed. If you still have warranty then the new should be exchanged. But if the bad sector in the form of software, the possibility can still be improved. So the discussion here focuses only bad in the software sector.

How do I fix Bad Sector?
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If the disk is exposed to a bad sector, then the first step is to save the data that is important, both in the store in another hard drive, the CD or copy to the other. Before and following the steps below make sure the data is important in the backup.

First step: Try to format the drive or hard drive bad sector which is the usual format, for example, through right-click in Windows Explorer and select the format. Sometimes this can remove the bad sector.

If the initial step is not successful then I can try some free software with some of the following:

1. Easeus Partition Manager

This free software than helpful to create / edit the disk partition (Partition Magic look similar), can also be used to remove the bad sector. The steps as follows:

1. Easeus partition Run Program Manager
2. Select the drive that some have bad sectornya (to ensure no bad sector can also scan through the easeus this with click right drive Select the menu Advanced> Check Partition)
   
3. Right-click, and select Delete
   
4. When information appears, then select "Delete Partition and Delete Data"
   
5. If you are finished, click the Apply
   
6. Wait until finished.

Note that this step can only be done to drive than the windows. And make sure data is always secured / backup first.

Easeus partition manager can be downloaded / obtained from the following link :
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm (be sure to download the Home Edition (free))

2. HDD Low Level Format Tools

With this software, the disk can be in the format in depth (on the term low-level format). Please note that with the low-level format, then all data on the disk will be lost, and can not return it in / on the recovery again. But how this will usually be more effective the bad sector.

Because the hard drive will be in the format entirely, so that hard drives will be in the process must be in the format in other computers (in the loose and installed another computer). Or if you have 2 hard drives on the computer, the hard drives that do not contain windows in the format. Next step:

1. Run HDD Low Level Format tools
2. Hardisk will select the format. Of course that does not contain the operating system windows. Then click Continue
   
3. Select the tab "LOW-LEVEL-Format", and please read the warning appear
   
4. If you are unsure, then click on "FORMAT THIS DEVICE", and wait until the process is complete.

In addition to hard drives (SATA HDD Low level format can be obtained / downloaded from the link below:
HDD Low Level Format Tool version direct download http://hddguru.com/download/software/HDDGURU-Low-Level-Format-Tool/LLFsetup.2.36.1181.exe

3. Using the Software's default hard drive vendor.

Usually vendors such as Seagate and Western Digital, also provides software to analyze or repair hardisk. For hard drives seagate, they can download tools such as Seatools for Windows or DOS. whereas for the Western Digital tools can be downloaded "Wertern Digital Diagnostics lifeguard."

For example, to Western Digital, facilities include a "WRITE zeros" to fix errors such as bad sectors. For Seagate, so the install, then in the Help section already described enough detail about the benefits and use.

Download Seatools (Seagate)
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/Western-Digital-DLG-Diagnostics.shtml