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Pending and Uncorrectable sectors

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Via some smart tools, my hard drive report 6 Pending sectors and 6 uncorrectable sectors, in the past it has shown others 3 pending sectors that where later readed successfully, but now not. My HDD is a seagate momentus drive.
I think the best is to just get another drive, but for now I can't buy one (In mexico they cost as much as a week of work t_t) so for now, I want to try to repair those sectors and identify wich files were affected (hopefully I have backups of some critical documents).
my doubts are:
° Wich software is best to do this? (Seatools, chdsk, etc)
° Do those softwares show a log of the sectors or files that where affected?

My priorities are therefore to identify which files were affected to replace them and then to repair bad sectors on the disk, while I can afford a new disk.
 
chkdsk /f

If possible backup or do a sector-by-sector image of drive first. If chkdsk doesnt correct the problem there is more sophisticated software, but it is pricey, and costs more than a new drive.
 
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