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Doing a checkdisk on one of my partition in Windows XP, it reports that there is 4KB in bad sectors.

How can I know if this bad sector belongs to a file/folder or not, and if yes which file/folder it is so I can avoid accessing it?

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    If you have a bad sector on disk, backup your data and move to another disk. Where there are few of them, soon more will be.. Try to boot to some linux distribution sysresccd.org/Download an run command badblocks -svn /dev/sda / /dev/sda in case you have just one disk, you can find your disks designation by running fdisk -l
    – week
    Nov 16, 2012 at 18:50

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You can try using contain nfi.exe tool which is included in Win2K OEM support tools to identify the file that occupies a particular sector:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000srv/utility/3.0/nt45/en-us/oem3sr2.zip

Nfi.exe also works on Win XP and 2003. More Info here. This is an example of output I've made on my W7 machine. Run this tool from CMD. If no switches are added - help will appear.

Use C:\nfi.exe C: >C:\output.txt to save results and search for specific sectors later. Good Luck!

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    Why do the zeroes look so weird?
    – kinokijuf
    Jan 27, 2013 at 12:44

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