harddrive sector scan software?

**lmfy2k** · 17th April 2004

hi, my old 30gb ibm just went n wondering if there is any software which cud scan n repair bad sectors on a harddrive ? ive used windows scandisk n defrag but not much help.

**Q-Buster** · 17th April 2004

If your drive is showing bad sectors, and its only a 30Gb drive, I would NEVER trust it again to hold data of ANY importance - I learnt this lesson the hard way and lost about 100 photographs - along with my OS, My Docs etc, but the photos were the biggest loss. You can be sure it will fail, big style, sooner rather than later, when you most need it and least expect it. My advice - copy what you need from it asap, then bin it!!

**Nikki** · 17th April 2004

yeah i agree with Buster, back up your files you want to keep and then bin the hard drive having bad sectors can only lead to even more problems, loss of data etc.

Nik

**TheOneNOnly** · 17th April 2004

HDD Regenerator seems to scan and fix drives. Never tried it msyelf tho.

**wakadoo** · 18th April 2004

u tried the makers web site? like maxtor do maxblast and i would think most manufactures have a utility 4 the job.

**D 1** · 19th April 2004

There is an utility program kicking about that tries to recover data from the infamous IBM Deskstar (Deathstar) drives.

Have a look on the IBM site for more info.