Maxtor HDD Bad Sectors Repair Tool 2.0

Bad Sectors Repair 2.0 can add bad sectors of Maxtor 541DX(2B0X0H1) HDD into the factory defects list (P-LIST), up to 15,000 bad sectors can be added into the list at most.

How does Bad Sectosr Repair 2.0 work?

1. It is able to move defects from G-list to P-list, empty and reset both P-list and G-list, reset the HDD capacity and add your specific sector as defect into the P-list…

2. The HDD restored would work just as a brand-new HDD: There will be no bad sector,and it could be partitioned and formatted at your will.

3. So, after you have this powerful freeware installed, all you have to do is to insert the bootable disk and have your target HDD connected correctly to you IDE slot. In minutes, you could start fixing the defective HDD using this powerful utility by pressing several keys

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What do I do if my hard drive reports bad sectors?

Fix Bad Sectors Bad sectors can often be corrected by using a spare sector built into the hard drive. However, any information written to a bad sector is usually lost.

There are several methods for finding and correcting bad sectors.

1. Use the Error Checking utility built in to Microsoft Windows.

  1. Double Click My Computer, and right-click the hard disk.
  2. On the shortcut menu, click Properties, and on the Tools tab in the Properties dialog box, click Check Now in the Error-Checking Status area.
  3. In the Check Disk dialog box, select the Automatically Fix File System Errors check box, select the Scan For And Attempt Recovery Of Bad Sectors check box, and then click Start.
    View Windows help on detecting and repairing disk errors for more information.

2. Use SeaTools diagnostics for Seagate and Maxtor drives and run a long test.  For Seagate SCSI drives, use Seatools Enterprise. For Maxtor SCSI drives, test with SCSIMax.

3. Erase the drive:

  1. For SCSI drives: Use Seatools Enterprise (for Seagate drives) or SCSIMax (for Maxtor-brand drives) to perform a low-level format on the drive.
  2. For external drives: Use DiscWizard or your external drive management software to zero-fill your external drive.
  3. For internal ATA/IDE and SATA drives:Use SeaTools for DOS to perform a full zero fill.
    This option will erase ALL data on the partitions on the drive.
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What is a bad sector?

A sector is a small area on the surface of a hard drive or a floppy disk.

Hard drives usually have several platters. The platters are the discs which are covered with magnetic material which is used to hold data. Floppy disk drives contain only one platter.

Platters are divided into a set of concentric rings called tracks. A 1.44MB floppy disk has 160 tracks. Hard drives have thousands of tracks.

Each of these tracks is divided into smaller storage areas called sectors. A sector is the smallest storage area on a disk.

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.

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