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My seagate hard disk is only 5 months old since i bought it brand new..but it has now 16 bad sector..is there a possibility to erase thoe bad sector?tnx
First Backup all your data than use HDD data Life Guard Tools and write zeros to whole drive..it will remap your Bad Sectors....also it will increase health of your hard Drive...
Scandisk(or whatever) should mark those sectors as bad, thus preventing them from being used. But no, you cannot erase them, they are physical areas of your disk that cannot properly hold data. Bad sectors are not uncommon, and nothing to be alarmed about, but a loud hard drive is...
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SEAGATE ('www.seagate.com') offers a one-year warranty.
Copy all your files (onto another disk, or onto DVD-writable disks),
and then exercise the warranty for SEAGATE to repair/replace it, at no cost to you.
The "table-of-contents" of the files on the disk-drive are usually written in the first few sectors. If those sectors are "bad", your files will be inaccessible.
It's time to buy a new disk-drive, and reinstall Windows.
You cannot. The disk-drive has some "spare" sectors, and it should automatically reassign them, i.e., like using a spare tire on your car when one of the 4 tires goes flat, you just "swap-in" the "spare".
Unfortunately, unlike fixing a flat tire, there is no way to "repair" a bad sector on a disk.
Having "bad" sectors is a sign that your disk-drive is _SOON_ to _COMPLETELY_ fail. So, it's time for you to buy a new disk-drive, and copy all your files from your "old" disk to your "new" disk. Compare it to buying insurance for your automobile, in case of a "crash" while using your automobile (or your computer).
You can not remove bad sectors from hard drives. Bad sectors are parts of the disk that become unreadable / unwriteable. Hard drives made in recent years simply stop using that part of the drive.
Good day sir/maam, hi, 14 months is too short for a hard disk operating span, what we do is run the diskmanager software that comes with the seagate hard disk, on the diskmanager menu, run the low level format which usually removes the bad sectored space out of the way, and mark it as not usable. then may I suggest you partition your hard drive to 2, one for windows and the the other for data. call your computer dealer if they have in house techs for service, or get the copy of disk manager for your seagate. Hope this helps, thanks
It sounds like your HDD is faulty, usually a hardrive can operate with bad sectors but still a risk.
My best advice would be to get a new HDD and recover back on to the new one, even if you did manage to recover onto your current one you may still have problems in the future.
I usually only allow a HDD to fail S.M.A.R.T tests 3 times over any given period and then I just replace them.
I suggest puting your hdd on another computer, full format it again, and scan it for bad sectors.Also, searching for a program that repairs bad HDD sectors, the windows default erros scan could not be very helpful if there are many bad sectors.
Note- this software is works only with windows operating system so, connect your Memory Card, Phone, HDD or any other Storage Device to computer to recover data.
Two possible solutions but both calls for another software/utility. 1. Use FDISK but you should be booting and running in DOS mode; 2. the other is Partition Magic which runs under Windows environment.
The idea is to delete the existing partition (that shows only 31.50Gb) and thereafter re-partition to the full capacity of the drive. of course doing so would erase the contents. Further, a format after the re-partition is required.
Hope this be of initial help/idea. Pls post back how things turned up or should you need additional information.
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