For hard drives, logical bad sectors repairing is relatively simple, and when detected the hard disk had bad sectors by software, and above all have to deal with the bad sectors as logical bad sectors, if the bad sectors still exist, then by the way repairing the physical sectors could repair it.
(1) through hard disk scanner repair the logical bad sectors
For the logical bad sectors, repair method is relatively simple.
For Windows 98 users, click the “Start → Programs → Accessories → System Tools → Disk Scan” menu item in the dialog box that appears,select the required scan area, select the “full”, “auto-fix errors “Options, click the” Start “button
For Windows 2000/XP systems users, you can double-click to open “My Computer”, right-click the partition needs to be recovery, select “Properties” command in the dialog box that appears, click “Tools” button, Click “Error-checking” option group “Start Check” button. In the dialog box that appears select the “Automatically fix file system errors”, “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors” option, click the “Start” button.
Through the above method, generally able to solve the logical bad sectors hard disk problems. If you can not normally into Windows, you can use a boot floppy disk to start the computer, and then type “Scandisk X:” (X for specific drive letter) to scan and repair the hard disk. Once found a bad sectors,the program will prompt you “Fixit” (restoration), select “Yes” and then began a restoration.
(2) Repair the hard disk logical bad sectors by DM
Through the built-in Windows ScanDisk to repair bad sectors does not damage the security of the hard disk data, but the program capacity is limited, if found still exist hard drive bad sectors after repaired by ScanDisk,you can consider the adoption of DM to repair.
Before used the DM repair hard disk bad sectors,first you should get the data on the hard drive backup to other media. all the data will be deleted when DM repair bad sectors,so you must first back up data.
First of all download DM 10000 from the Internet and producing a DMÂ boot floppy, and then run DM and access to its main interface. Position the cursor to the “(M) aintenance Options” (the maintenance option) option, and then press the Enter key, in the sub-interface, position the cursor to the “(U) tilities” (tool) option, return.The system will ask to select the hard disk which will be repaired,at this time you can choose by yourself according to needs, and then press Enter to enter sub-interface, position the cursor to the “Zero Fill Drive” (zero-filled disk) option, after press Enter keys,the red warning message will appear. Press Alt + C key combination confirmed, select “Yes” to begin “zero-filled” the hard drive. When you finished it, then re-partition the hard drive. This operation not only repair the vast majority of hard disk bad sectors, but also not harm the hard disk drive as low-level formatting.
