HDD regenerator anyone?

[coilz]

Anyone used that HDD regenerator program that repairs Bad sectors? Any comments or feedback? Will it hose my machine?

 

[t. shuffle]

Generally, bad sectors cannot be "repaired". The only thing that any of those prorgams that I am aware of do, is map the sectors as being bad, move the data off of them to another part of the drive, and prevent any data from being written to them in the future.

If you are starting to get a lot of bad sectors, it's a pretty likely that the drive is getting ready to fail in a big way, and should be replaced.

 

[Ice Czar]

snakeoil

Defect Mapping and Spare Sectoring

you cannot "repair" bad sectors
you can make their indicator as bad disappear
at your own risk, but they will be relocked again with subsequent data loss

more snake oil > Spinrite > see > http://grcsucks.com/spinrite.htm

 

[MOC]

Hey Ice Czar,That site had alot of information ,and I never new about the
FORMAT /Z: command for changing the clusters size.

 

[Ice Czar]

That site had alot of information

teach yourself computers in 10,000 easy steps
while somewhat dated in areas the PC Guide is still a huge resource


Im glad you found it useful
a page a day keeps the tech away

 

[MOC]

Hey, thanx for that.