Run data recovery before or after trying to fix physically damaged hard drive sectors?
by admin on Oct.09, 2011, under Uncategorized
Trying to recover some files that disappeared after playing with partitions. The laptop hard drive seems to have a lot of bad sectors however and is probably damaged. (Problem copying files, slow, etc.) Should I try to do data recovery to first or try to fix the damaged drive. Will fixing the bad sectors affect the data recovery software?
October 9th, 2011 on 9:05 am
Before Repair, and do it on Startup (Reboot) So that the Recovery Application can work in Low Mem, and Low Overhead Mode. Good Luck
October 9th, 2011 on 9:17 am
if you’ve got bad sectors and running chkdsk (win xp) or scandisk (win 98) it will mark the sectors so the operating system won’t use them you can’t repair them.
bad sectors are usually a sign of an impending disk failure so if I were you I’d try data recovery first save everything then try to repair the disk and then get ready for a disk failure although it may be quiet a while coming but it will
some very good and free data recovery software is PC inspector you can get it here http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm