The common user simply can not repair physical bad sectors, the only way we can do is divide it into a zone and hide them by some disk softwares, so that the head no longer read it, and this would extend the hard disk life in some extent. It’s need to stressed that we must backup data when using the hard disk repair bad sectors, because when there was a bad sectors on the hard disk, more bad sectors will appear.
(1) Screen physical bad sectors of hard drives by Disk Genius.
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Downloading Disk Genius from the Internet, make a boot floppy disk, and then extract the downloaded compressed packets, copy the main program “Diskgen.exe” of the Disk Genius to the floppy disk. if there is no floppy disk, the software can also be stored in the hard disk or other media.
To start the computer by floppy disk, at the prompt, enter “Diskgen” command and start the program. Access to the main program interface, press the Alt key to activate the function menu, select “Tools → Hard surface inspection,” menu command. At this point the system will show “Test the current partition the hard disk surface? Bad sector list will be saved to BACDSECT.TXT the” prompt, select “Scan” and click Enter, this time scanning mode selection dialog box will appear, its scanning mode respectively : According to sector scan, according to track scan and scanned by cylinder, the proposed select “by sector” option. Click the “Sector” option to scan, the scanning process, the dialog box will appear, scan to the bad sectors will be issued when “Ko-zi, ko-zi,” sound. Completed it, there would be a tip whether there is a bad sector, and total number ofbad sectors.
To restart Windows, backup all the data on the hard drive to other media, and then open the BACDSECT.TXT file in the floppy disk, in this file detailed account results of the earlier scan.
To re-start the computer with the floppy disk, at the prompt, enter “Diskgen” command and enter into the main program interface, press the Alt key to activate the function menu, select “Partition → Delete Partition” menu command, delete all of the original partition. And then select the “Partition → New partition” (or build extended partition) menu command, according to BADSECT.TXT file recorded of the bad sectors location, divide the 10 ~ 20MB  space which before and after bad sectors into a separate area ( This is done to give bad sectors a spread portion space).
Note: When partition the hard drive, if there are errors, the software provides a “reload” command, you can partition the hard drive back to the original state. Because the software prior to archiving all operations are only stored in memory, so you can use multiple ways to control the specified range of the partition size contains bad sectors.
Finally, press the Alt key to activate the function menu, press the Tab key to select the partition that contains bad sectors, select the “Partition → hide” menu command, you can hide partition that contains bad sectors. After district all partition, save settings and restart your computer, at last adopt Windows built-in Format command to format all partitions. At this point, all of the work to screen bad sectors are completed.
(2) through “a efficiency of the source hard disk bad track repair software” rapair bad sectors
Running downloaded program, insert a floppy disk to the floppy drive, and then run the program, in the main program interface, click “Create Disk Tools” button, you can generate a tool used to detect bad sectors of hard disk drive. Start the computer by floppy disk, start the program, in the main interface, select “smart repair bad sectors” option and begin to repair bad sectors on the hard drive.
When adopt the software to repair bad sectors, it is recommended that you should backup the data on the hard disk at first, and conduct a comprehensive inspection before repair bad sectors.
