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Shareware/Freeware - a software for bad sector removing


Expert: Lorry - 3/13/2004

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Dear sir
I have a maxtor hard drive .it have some bad sector in some drives.when i copy a file in several drives(for example C drive or I drive that they have bad sector)my computer bcome automatically restared and i see a message:disk failure000when i shoutdown it by power button it became correct. i scaned (through) and used from a Software (HDD Regenerator) and Fix it utility and i cannot remove bad sectors. some frindes toled me to doing low level format. please guide me to remove bad sectors. if your recommend is low level format . what is the best software for this work?
  thank you very much
    ja

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Hi JA,

You could formatting but if the hard drive has too many bad sectors, yiouy would be better off installing a new drive. Please see the following for more information:

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/geom/formatUtilities-c.html

Hope this helps!
Lorry

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