How to Fix A Bad Sector on a Hard Drive

How to Fix A Bad Sector on a Hard Drive

When a hard drive starts to show signs of wear and tear, you may see one or more bad sectors show up when scanning for errors on the disk, when the hard disk starts to go bad and shows bad sectors, the data may get lost on them bad sectors. Does this mean I have to replace my hard drive? no, the rest of the disk will be unaffected by bad sectors and the hard disk will still be usable. What Victoria can do is scan for bad sectors on the drive and mark them as unusable. If you choose to mark as unusable sector, the Operating System will know not write or store data to them bad sectors. In my personal experience, each hard drive and bad sector error is different from case to case and this method may or may not work for you. If the hardware is damaged bad enough I would suggest you backup what you can and replace the hard disk with a new one.

This software is no miracle worker, but it does work for same hard drive problems. Victoria Software can only fix bad sectors that aren't physical problems, which means if its related to a software issue that leads the bad sector to be marked as bad. Remember physically damaged bad sectors on the hard drive cannot be repaired.

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[relaxingnature]

Don't you think it would have made a better video if you used a harddrive with problems ? ..this video is like teaching a mecanics course on a flawless brand new car

[hyperdazedesu]

Me: How to Fix A Bad Sector on a Hard Drive?
Britec09: Buy a new Hard Drive

[SzymonWarunek]

Thank you for that video.I needed to fix my wd velociraptor sir Brian.That is the best video in your channel so far.

[pach]

I've used the software, it runs however it damaged my hdd, my hdd is no longer visible to any of my devices, i also tried it on my windows system drive, now i'm unable to boot to windows, this sucks, yesterday i had my hdd and windows working, now both of them is unusable...

[revenge]

nvm, dont try any tool that says it will fix bad sectors they are all trash, they might increase the problem, if your harddrive has bad sectors just buy ssd or another harddrive or, , ignore the bad sectors .

[drtiegoo]

Thanks for this, ive been looking for a video with a fix for a long time and this one worked, just, thx

[asy]

Me: has more than 10 blue boxes
Also me: this is fine😀

[KristoferProphet]

When I try to do a Write test on my external, all the blocks have an error and say “Access denied”

When I do a read it’s perfectly fine and the drive works fine and everything like that.

[noodlesatemybaby]

How exactly does scanning your Hard Drive for errors fix it? Wasn't really explained well, at all

[matrixate]

I use Stablebit Scanner, but I always religiously replace the hard drive when sectors start going yellow or when they take more than 100ms to write a sector? I forgot the speed threshold but whenever it takes a while. I've only had one hard drive fail bad in 15 years. It was a newer 2TB Seagate. Fortunately, I had backups.

[ChuckNorris-lfvo]

Cool that PIO is in 32bit didn't realize that but found it by accident today. Thanks.

[Kingking-qxgq]

Can you please explain what restore and remap do? Does using remap stops that sector forever? And what restore actually does?
And what actually erase does?
And also do I need to do anything with smart such as reset it?

[Bluedragon-cokb]

Thank you very much Brian!!!! I been looking forward to a video like that one :-) keep up the great teaching!

[Missony]

Oh god, if i had this 15 years ago, now, i was a very rich man! Thank for sharing this.

[chrisbekker]

You have a option to relocate Bad sectors, so it marks Bad sectors, and the Drive does not use them anymore. Its not a bad program, you just need to know what you are doing! Not for amateurs BTW.

[uncrunch]

What cheap brand HDD do you have? If I'm not mistaken, this was an automatic feature and they had spare sectors since early IDE/PATA or before. The drive handled it, the OS and apps only noticed a slow down when it dealt with bad sectors. It didn't always slow apps down if there weren't too many for read ahead / prefetch buffers to keep up.

[misonimisoni]

i have done same you have shown but still am getting the same CRC error nor able initialize. so not showing in explore nor disk managment

[rogeriomoretti]

Great vid, man! Thanks a lot. I'm running Victoria on a HDD that started reporting bad sectors on CrystalDisk, and I'm seeing a LOT of orange spots in the test section. I'm guessing there's really nothing that can be done for that drive, yeah? :(

[ianarbery]

thanks britec09 for the showing us how to use the software

[Kaiwizz]

thanks for the video. I was wondering what does the erase button do. what happens when I erase the bad sectors in my drive?