How to recover damaged hard drive due to bad sectors. Harddisk is a component inside a PC that has a role as data storage. Without a PC hard drive will not be able to run because it has no storage. Hard drives that have a large capacity will be much more than a little because the more years of storage technology the more necessary to do the addition of capacity. Hard drive damage can be fatal to the user because with the destruction of memory can eliminate the important files in it.
Fixed Harddisk with Check Disk
Resolving the hard disk problem by checking the disk can be started by connecting your hard drive to your computer.
If these steps still fail, we can use the command prompt to solve the problem. Here are the steps that can be done to do so.
Fixed Harddisk with Check Disk
Resolving the hard disk problem by checking the disk can be started by connecting your hard drive to your computer.
- If your hard drive is problematic, when you insert your hard disk into your hard disk drive will pop up a dialog box that prompts you to format your hard disk.
- Click "No". Remember do not until you click "Format", because by doing so you will do the process of formatting the hard drive that will make the datas in your hard drive to be lost.
- Click "Start", select "MyComputer" or the "Computer" icon on your computer desktop.
- Later will appear the drive from the hard drive you just connected earlier. Right click on your hard drive, choose "Properties." If your hard drive cannot be read please go directly to the next stage.
- Later will appear a Windows window that displays its properties. Click on the "Tools" tab.
- Select "Check Now" under "Error Checking" to start checking the problem or error on your hard disk. Do not forget to check the window of Windows which is a question that asks you to continue the process of hard disk repair software. Check also on the box containing "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors"
- Click "Start". If later Windows notifies that your hard drive is unreadable and you need to re-format it, click "No".
If these steps still fail, we can use the command prompt to solve the problem. Here are the steps that can be done to do so.
- First open the Command Prompt application that exists on your computer.
- To open it you can click Start, then run Run.
- Once open, on the run menu, enter the CMD command after that click "Start"
- Later the window of the Command Prompt application will open.
- From there type the name of your damaged drive by adding a colon. For example, your damaged hard drive is located in drive G :, then type 'G:' then hit enter.
- If your hard drive is damaged or damaged, in the CMD window will appear a warning saying "The System Can not Find Drive Specified".
- Lastly, type chkdsk command in the command prompt, after which wait a while until the checking process is complete.
- If an error or problem is found, Windows will offer an option to fix it. Type the 'y' command to confirm the continuation of the process.
- Wait until the repair is complete
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