Harddrive bad sectors

[nat1192]

I have a laptop that would not boot up windows giving me a BSOD saying there was an unmountable Boot Volume. I ran knoppix and check the drive with: “ntfsresize -fi /dev/hdXY” and it said there was a bad sector and that "This may be caused by physical damage to the drive". My question is, is there any sort of program that I can use to repair this damage or do I need to replace the drive.

 

[The_Other_One]

I don't know of any right off(sorry) but most any Low Level Format or Zero Write program might solve the problem. I have fixed some bad sectors in the past, but some drives are beyond repair.

 

[terrytree]

What is a Bad Sector?

Hard drives are contain millions of sectors. It is very normal for some of these sectors to be bad sectors, even when the drive is first manufactured.

In addition, a small number of sectors will normally go bad during the lifespan of a drive.

When this happens, the data in those sectors may be lost, but the data on the rest of the disk will be unaffected and the disk is still completely usable.

A bad sector cannot be repaired, but it can be marked as unusable. Once marked as unusable, the Operating System will know not to attempt to store data in that bad sector. The storage capacity of the disk will be decreased by the amount of storage space in the bad sector.

If your hard drive develops a bad sector, back the hard drive up immediately. If the bad sector was caused by a faulty drive head, the problem can quickly spread to other sectors on the disk.

more information: http://www.fat-ntfs.com/articles/ha...-drive-structure/What-is-a-bad-sector-48.html

 

[PohTayToez]

Basically, it sounds like you lost a system file to a bad sector. Reinstall your OS, and make sure to do a full format (not a quick format) when you reinstall to mark the bad sector.