HDD bad sectors

smos585

I have a query, and am wondering if I am wasting time.
I have a hdd which after a chkdsk repair showed 4 bad sectors. I subsequently moved the partitions so that the bad sectors were not allocated to any partition. I did temporarily create a partition of the area in question to see if a full reformat of the area would clear the problem, but a subsequent chkdsk showed the problem still present. So I have deleted the partition.
Does the quarantining of the bad sector area of the hdd, actually have any benefit in terms of avoiding or reducing the risk of further problems?

fwor

In theory, the drive's controller should ensure that any sectors marked as "bad" simply don't get used.

You should not need to move partitions for this to happen.

If you have doubts about the drive's integrity, download the makers' drive utilities and run their tests. There should be an option to test the complete drive surface and flag any bad sectors as unusable (all modern drives have spare space that can be swapped in to compensate).

davidbeckham

what command did use, have you tried chkdsk /f partition_letter:

-TangleFoot-

fwor wrote: »

In theory, the drive's controller should ensure that any sectors marked as "bad" simply don't get used.

fwor wrote: »

all modern drives have spare space that can be swapped in to compensate

Note: this is done transparently. Windows doesn't even notice unless the disk has run out of sectors to re-allocate.

Suggest you back up immediately if you haven't already done so.