Can u isolate a bad sector??and how??

[Martin]

Can u isolate a bad sector??and how??
from dos or with window 95 "b"??

thk

[steves]

Run Scandisk (Accessories->System Tools) with 'thorough' option selected. Scandisk will mark the sector as bad so it shouldn't bother you again.

Scandisk can retry bad sectors for a very long time so give it plenty of time, don't abort assuming it's locked up if it goes 5-10 minutes with no apparent activity.

Bad sectors are more often than not a sign of a disk on it's way out, so re-run scandisk every couple of weeks and keep an eye out for more bad sectors.

[Stevo]

Is there any other program that will do this? scandisk crashes on some old drives of mine

[ANTONIO E GUERRA]

Try the following software:

pctools in any of their versions;
spinrite--it fixes hard drives and partitions;
disk doctor--utility from Norton's
download.com contains hard drive utilities for free
You may find some hard disk's utilities at your hard disk website.

[Bazango]

Dittos on the caution. My drive with bad sectors eventually died.

[Martin]

Well i put the drive in My pc but i can't read it or write on it..scandisk told me that
1 of the 2 bad sector is on the begining of the disk...My friend don't care about the drive but for now he like to find a way to back up....

anyideal??
Am doing disk doctor now
tk guys