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bes
04-08-2010, 04:24 PM
My old SmartDisk Firelite 100gig USB2.0 external finally got a bad sector today(damaged 38MB block)..

And I was wondering, I seem to have a brain fart on what programs I could run to prevent files from being written to that bad spot?

There used to be a program through DOS that would do it.. I dont wanna use Hirens boot CD..

Will the normal windows Error-checking tool do that or what?

What program should I use?
Atranox
04-08-2010, 04:46 PM
From my understanding, and I could be completely wrong, CHKDSK should prevent access to the bad sector.
Aezay
04-08-2010, 04:46 PM
The disk should by it self prevent any files from being written to bad blocks, so no need for any apps to take care of that.

But bad blocks rarely comes alone, I would suggest you back everything up and get a new disk.
bes
04-08-2010, 04:53 PM
The disk should by it self prevent any files from being written to bad blocks, so no need for any apps to take care of that.

But bad blocks rarely comes alone, I would suggest you back everything up and get a new disk.

Well I only did the disk check because I was watching a TV show from it that I recorded earlier, the VLC media player I was using to watch it locked up,along with the hard drive locking up and I got errors about the file being corrupt...

I assumed the data for my TV show was in the bad/damaged sector...

So I opened HD Tune Pro 4.01 and ran an error scan and thats when I found the damaged sector..

I ran a scan of the drive like a week ago and I found none..
Aezay
04-08-2010, 05:22 PM
Aha, thought you had corrected the bad sector already, you'll have to do that first. Run this command, replace the x with whatever drive yours is.

chkdsk x: /f /r /x
NotYourHero
04-08-2010, 05:25 PM
Nothing should be writen to the bad sector, and I think if something already is when it goes back, chkdsk moves it. Everything has bad blocks though. Take a Wii. It can have as many as 80 bad blocks from what I heard as "factory bad blocks" and still have the total space it should. Every HDD will get a bad block somewhere.
bes
04-08-2010, 09:29 PM
Aha, thought you had corrected the bad sector already, you'll have to do that first. Run this command, replace the x with whatever drive yours is.

chkdsk x: /f /r /x

Thanks!.. odd though ...I plugged the drive into Windows7 to try this and I got a popup box asking me if I want to repair the drive :P