[RESOLVED] Hard disk bad blocks

[w_nour]

Hi everyone

Ihave a hard disk with bad sectors and I want to mark these blocks any one know how

hard disk western digital
size 6 G.B


thanks

[CompuDocs]

Norton Disk Editor can do it.

Charlie


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<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by w_nour:
Hi everyone

Ihave a hard disk with bad sectors and I want to mark these blocks any one know how</font>

Is it so bad that it won't farmat? If it's formatted, you can use SCANDISK to mark them.

scandisk /all /autofix /surface

Otherwise you can use any old disk editor, PC Tools, Norton Diags (DOS Version), Troubleshooter, etc.


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[Ruslan]

Did You try drive diagnostic/repair program "dlgdiag" from manufacturer: http://www.wdc.com/service/ftp/drives.html ?
If not,try it first.

What exactly WD model do You have?
I have also few questions to You posted here:
http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin...ML/001019.html