So i recently fixed a laptop for a friend. Windows kept trying to "repair" the hard drive but it just looped and never fixed it. I was able to get the drive out and transfer her pictures, etc over to a new drive, and installed a new drive to her laptop. I was wondering what, if any, would be a good program to use to scan and mark the bad sectors on the hard drive. Not that i really need the drive, but it's always nice to have an "emergency spare" around in case one of my drives crashes until i can get a new one from amazon. I tried using HD tune pro and it showed that the very first sector was bad, but the program crashes before the scan is completed. Tried using chkdsk, but windows doesn't recognize the drive properly. (Shows the volume label, but nothing about space, etc). Thanks in advance for the help.
low level format, but you cant trust that drive. can fail anytime, wouldnt use it. maybe to bring some bigger unimportant files from a to b, but not more
Thanks for the replies. I think i will just throw the drive out. I've had it doing a zero fill format for 4 hours..and it's still on 1 percent. Oh well..Thanks again!
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