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Hard Drive with Bad Cluster Still Fit To Use

 

Hard Drives are contain millions of sectors and it is normal for some of these sectors to be bad sectors event when the drive is first manufactured. Unfortunately, the hard drive with bad sectors, the data stored them are not any more accessible or  may be lost ,and in the long usages of hard drive, bad sectors increases and the storage capacity of the disk will be decreased by the amount of storage space in the bad sector and soon your hard drive are not accessible . If you want to know how make your Hard Drive still usable even some part of them are contained with bad sectors, follow the rest of my post. But first you must know what is possible encountered if your hard drive contained bad sectors.


Possible encountered the hard drive contained bad clusters.
  • Improper program terminations and shutting off a computer without closing the application first.
  • Computer sometimes hang-up while in use.
  • Can’t access some data stored in your hard drive.
  • Terminate your copy and paste  procedures.
  • Setting up application terminate in the middle of the installation or even from the start.
  • Sometimes hard drive can’t format, sometimes possible.
  • Operating System ( Windows XP, Windows VIsta, Windows 7 , etc) setup stop in the middle of installation.

If you encountered one of them, here’s the solution how you can still use  some parts of your hard drive not yet contained with bad sectors or fix bad sectors.

  • Run “ CHKDSK.EXE”  under Start>Run or “CHKDSK/R” under you DOS Command ( required to reboot your PC). This procedure could help you to fix some bad clusters.
  • Other solution, double click to “ MY COMPUTER” then right click to the volume drive and choose “ PROPERTIES>TOOLS>CHECK NOW”. Two option available to check disk option “ Automatic fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors” and click START, to fix your drive.

After that procedures and still lot bad sectors left , here the solution to make you hard drive still fit to use.

  • Partition your hard drive as many as possible. We do this job to avoid some parts of the sectors contained bad sectors.  Let say  bad sectors was included in the first partition ( Drive C:) , So, jump to other partition drive you created, means don’t use that partition or permanently delete that partition ( you can do this job by simply right click to “ My computer> Manage> Disk Management” and right to the drive you want to delete , choose “ Delete Volume) this procedure works only for Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you are using other Operating System , I suggest to slave your hard drive to other PC or you need operating System CD and run it in standard procedure format and setup.
  • If you still confused how it works. Well, you can still setup your OS ( Windows XP, VISTA, 7, etc) to the other drives, we only concentrate on drive C:, but in fact you can setup you Windows System in your desire drive like we setup multiple Windows. You can also setup your other application to the drive you like and paste your data to the partition drive that you think not contained with bad sectors.

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