I have an out of warranty laptop that has an hdd with bad sectors. I say that because chkdsk /r
got stuck for over 24 hours at certain %. I also left GRC's SpinRite
running for 4 days. It is my understanding that these programs get stuck at certain places because they try to recover as much data as possible. I'm not interested in that. All important data have already been backed up. I'm looking for a solution where I can continue using this hdd and avoid buying a new one. I take full consequences of using a failing drive.
I'm looking for some tool that preferably non-destructively(to preserve current Windows/apps installs) would do something along the lines of:
if it can't read/write to a sector 3 times, mark it bad and move on.
I don't need programs to grind for hours/days at a time to recover as much data as possible. I'm looking for something to specifically quickly mark bad sectors.
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. It has many options that can help you. – Ankur140290 Jan 9 '14 at 11:03