Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Fix Bad Sectors On Your Hard Disk

Bad Sector has long been the scourge that is troubling for a number of computer users. Quite a lot of factors that can lead to Bad Sector, but not the least is also a way that can be done to restore the hard disk that were affected. First of all you have to little to know whether Bad Sector Bad Sector and how it could happen. Hard Disk Bad Sector can be affected through two possibilities, the first in Logic, and the second in Physic. For the last possibility, not be discussed too deep for the Physic Bad Sector happened caused by physical damage to the hard disk.



While Bad Sector in Logic can occur due to disturbance of the operation read - write in a sector. This can be caused by several possibilities, such as viruses, corrupt boot record, the voltage disturbance, or other similar possibilities.

When Bad Sector in Logic occur on your hard disk, it is advisable to first try to repair hard disk software is included when purchasing the hard disk.

The software does not actually fix the broken sector, but hide it. In other words there but the damage remains the operating system will ignore it. Picture about how it works is like this. Software that will restore the hard disk's magnetic orientation to make each byte can perform read and write to enable hard disk recovery. Bad Sector can be spread on the hard disk, especially on hard disk 0 track. An event like this can also cause you can not install and copy the data on your hard disk.



Use of hard disk repair software

Previously there may be simple ways that can be done as first aid threatened when the hard disk Bad Sector experience. In Windows XP go to is MS-DOS Prompt. Then type "chkdsk / R" and press Enter. This command will immediately find the position of Bad Sector and then do the rescue on the data can still be read. For the series of Windows 95, 98, or Millennium, Scandisk application which is inherited from the Windows application that can be tried. However, if still not convinced and problems on the hard disk has not resolved, there are other ways to get more leverage below.

Basically, the hard disk has been equipped with software improvements which occurred when Bad Sector on the hard disk. This software can handle a Bad Sector Logic. Here are some examples of software built from a number of hard disk. Maxtor and Quantum includes MaxBlast, with ClearHDD Samsung, Seagate Seagate equipped Formats, whereas a Western Digital Old DLG Diagnostic, and Fujitsu FJ-IDE armed Drive Initializer Utility.

But did not rule you can also maximize the healing process of the hard disk Bad Sector using other software that is also quite powerful. And this time the software will try is SpinRite, hard disk repair software made by Gibson Research, the latest version of version 6.0. SpinRite supports FAT, NTFS, Linux, Novell, drives with multiple operating systems, and the hard disk that has not been formatted though. Here's a bit how to use it.

Create a boot CD or floppy disk. Making process can be performed directly in the SpinRite. Select "Boot Diskette Crete", then "Create an ISO or Image File", or it could be through the option "Install SpinRite on Drive". Make it easier to apply for it using a bootable CD. As information, the next stage of the process will be more time consuming in DOS mode.

After the image file created from SpinRite had been so, then burn to a blank CD using Nero or similar CD burning device. Restart the computer and boot with the CD you just created.

After successfully booting from CD before, we will carry on SpinRite interface that presents five options or can be called also the level of improvement. Please select the option which you need to repair your hard disk according to the level of damage. Usually in most cases, option number two and four of the most frequently needed. second option will restore the data, and option number four is the maintenance and analysis on the hard disk.

After selecting the option which is required, you are welcome to specify the drive or partition which will be checked or repaired. Follow the next steps of investigation and determination of SpinRite option will immediately work to do his job on your hard disk.

Processing time is relatively based on the speed and capacity of hard disk. SpinRite can do repair hard disk with maximum speed of 120Gb per hour it. Although still the speed of SpinRite is strongly influenced by many factors, such as system configuration, hard disk damage, or the support of the Ultra DMA. But do not worry if you do not want to wait a long time and did not want to leave the repair process, SpinRite offers easy termination of the repair process to proceed at a later time. Live simply keep track of position when stopping the process of examination.

SpinRite will automatically go to option number four, if after the pengecekkan necessary repairs and maintenance on your hard disk. And this process takes no less, could get even a matter of days, depending on the level of damage to the hard disk itself. But surely this is better than you have to lose data or have to buy a new hard drive thanks to Bad Sector persecute you hard disk.

SpinRite is also equipped with an active screensaver as the process is running. Can also display the course of an ongoing process. If the hard disk supports temperature readings feature, SpinRite will also display the hard disk temperature information. There are also other interesting features of "DynaStat Data Recovery" which can display more closely the course of the repair process is ongoing.