Repairing a damaged HDD (Hard Disk Drive)

CodePunisher · 2013-07-22

Hello: Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión Quite often a laptop lands in our hands and, if it's a Windows user's, surely with a blue screen, and we're surprised to find the HDD is damaged. We don't know which sectors, but the important thing is to recover as much information as possible. That's where a LiveCD comes in. There are many, from the lightest ones like Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión, Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión; you can choose whichever you feel most comfortable with and use it to back up your files. Once that task is done, get to work identifying the bad sectors. For this you can use whichever Linux or Windows distros you feel most comfortable with. In this thread I'll cover a very well-known LiveCD called Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión, one of the tools in our Swiss army knife because of its many uses; in this case, repairing the sector if possible or, as a second option, isolating it. I.-OPTION: DRevitalize is a program that repairs bad sectors (physical defects) on popular magnetic storage devices (hard drives and, to some extent, even floppies) by generating a special sequence of high and low level signals around the physically damaged area. The surface of almost any drive can be repaired with this tool (even hard drives that have been dropped or exposed to strong electromagnetic fields). Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión hiren's Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión hiren's DRevitalize Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión hiren's DRevitalize Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión hiren's DRevitalize Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión hiren's DRevitalize Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión hiren's DRevitalize Let's wait for it to finish completely. II.-OPTION: Victoria is a powerful tool for testing and diagnosing hard drives. The application offers a large number of options which allow, among other things, determining the current state of the device, disabling the cache and repairing bad sectors. With a little practice you can measure data read and write speed, or set the AAM (Advanced Acoustic Management) parameter so as to quiet the disk. Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión Victoria 4.46b Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión Victoria 4.46b Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión Victoria 4.46b Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión Victoria 4.46b After that, wait for it to finish. III.-OPTION: Partition Bad Disk is an application designed to give you a simple way to create healthy disk partitions. This tool thoroughly scans the hard drive and automatically isolates bad sectors so that newly created partitions can be completely free of these issues Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión Partition Bad Disk Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión Partition Bad Disk Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión Partition Bad Disk Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión Partition Bad Disk Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión Partition Bad Disk Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión Partition Bad Disk Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión Partition Bad Disk At least 1 of these 3 options should work for you. Link: Hiren's: Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión For OptionIII Link: Partition Bad Sector Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión

Your Swiss army knife is FORMATTING, mine is Repairing

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Mr. Foster · 2013-07-22

This is very useful, since I've tried several methods to fix a hard drive I have. At my job I have to work with hard drives and some of them mysteriously go bad (WDC to be more exact). I had seen a place that buys hard drives for $3,000 pesos (about 6 dollars) and always wondered what they wanted them for or how they fixed them; here's the answer. Great contribution, brother

GhosTrick · 2013-07-22

I did know about this method, but when I boot the Hirens Boot system it doesn't recognize my HDD, though it does show up in the BIOS .... :/ Can anyone help me??

CodePunisher · 2013-07-22

Cita de: GhosTrick en Julio 22, 2013, 03:20:53 PM I did know about this method, but when I boot the Hirens Boot system it doesn't recognize my HDD, though it does show up in the BIOS .... :/ Can anyone help me??

Hello: There are 3 methods; which version of Hiren's are you using for this task? Regards

GhosTrick · 2013-07-22

Thanks for replying, it's Hirens Boot v. 16 .. The thing is only the BIOS recognizes the HDD and not the Hirens system as it should... I don't think it's the version because it used to recognize it :-\

TeNeX · 2013-07-24

There's another very good tool but it no longer works with SATA It's HDD Regenerator And another problem is when it shows an I/O error and won't let you read the hard drive, what do you suggest then?

CodePunisher · 2013-07-25

Cita de: GhosTrick en Julio 22, 2013, 04:19:42 PM Thanks for replying, it's Hirens Boot v. 16 .. The thing is only the BIOS recognizes the HDD and not the Hirens system as it should... I don't think it's the version because it used to recognize it :-\

Hello: Maybe this answer is a bit late, but here goes: Hiren's isn't the only LiveCD you can use; you can also use the many Linux distros for this task.

Cita de: TeNeX en Julio 23, 2013, 11:12:00 PM There's another very good tool but it no longer works with SATA It's HDD Regenerator And another problem is when it shows an I/O error and won't let you read the hard drive, what do you suggest then?

Regarding that, I use HDD Regenerator when I have those problems, but if it doesn't solve it (it happens that the machine no longer responds to repair) there's the 2nd option, although the 3rd is the one that saves you the most time. As for the I/O error, it strongly involves the hardware: do physical maintenance, then check the status of your disk either from your BIOS or with a bootable ISO with HDD Scan, SeaTools Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión. If you still don't get positive results, R.I.P. HDD and it's time to buy a 1TB HDD. Regards

aduntoridas · 2013-11-12

Good evening, I'd like to know if you'd be so kind as to tell me how you use Partition Bad Disk in MiniWinXP; I run the program and get an error :'(, thanks a lot for all the info .. extremely useful

aika · 2013-11-12

at what point exactly does the error appear?

juliianc95 · 2013-12-28

thanks for this great contribution, one question. is there a way to use it without needing a CD? my DVD drive is damaged. and I wanted to ask whether there's another way to repair the hard drive without having to go into the BIOS, or some other method that doesn't involve using the CD. thanks in advance.

arthusu · 2013-12-28

Cita de: juliianc95 en Diciembre 28, 2013, 12:04:56 PM thanks for this great contribution, one question. is there a way to use it without needing a CD? my DVD drive is damaged. and I wanted to ask whether there's another way to repair the hard drive without having to go into the BIOS, or some other method that doesn't involve using the CD. thanks in advance.

hdd regenerator: Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión boot it from USB ;)