soleimanian 0 Report post Posted October 20, 2005 How to repair disk errors and bad sectors in Windows Xp,2000,NTYou can use Windows Disk Manager tool to check for file system errors and bad sectors on your hard disk.To check your drives:1- right click on drive and click Properties2- click Tools tab and under Error-checking, click Check Now3- in dialog box select the Automatically fix file system errors or/and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box Automatically fix file system errors Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Killer008r 0 Report post Posted October 20, 2005 Although, some disk errors are irrepairable. So what you have to do is either backup your files and repartition your harddrive (repartition is pretty much saying whipe out everything that is on the harddrive and reinstall the basic things which can be accomplished by putting your OS cd in, and then selecting partition from the selection screen.) Or you can try to deal with it, if its not a major one. But if you deal with it for too long, it will make the drive fail, and you will have to replace it. So for the best decision you probaly want to reformat/repartition. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted January 2, 2008 Slow booting!!! How To Repair Disk Errors And Bad Sectors My computer went perfect a few days ago, but now it started to go so slow on booting progress and it uses 50-80 CPU useage while I got 3.2 GHz I'm running windows Xp home and this problem started whenever I downloaded a new hardware and I tried to get on to a game and I got BSOD...Typically I go onto BIOS settings and edits soem things, and now it wont even boot my comp?? I download 2 video drivers, is that the problem? -Christopher Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted September 20, 2009 Bad Sectors, fix, remove, How To Repair Disk Errors And Bad SectorsIf you "see" (use) bad sectors. . . Now there's the real problem and there's the point too. . . A bad sector is normal for 100% of hard drives; however, having the bad sector in use (visable/discoverable) is not normal at all. The SMART system is supposed to remove the bad sector from the catalog so that it can't be seen or used. If that doesn't work, then the disk manufacturer's utilities may have a repair option to remove the bad sector, and if the option is missing, then a fill zeros operation and then a FULL format, may allow SMART to kick in and remove the sector. If that doesn't work, then GRC SpinRite probably will work. Tolerances: Removing a sector shrinks storage space by a slight amount. After repair (removing bad sector from usage catalog), a hard drive should be retired when it has further decreased by bad sectors or if the problem increases. The point isn't bad sectors. All brand new hard drives have lots of bad sectors. There should be no bad sectors in the catalog--if not in catalog its impossible to "see" or use a bad sector, and thus the bad sector is irrelevant. The point is whether or not there is data stored on the bad sector. -reply by Daniel Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tansqrx 0 Report post Posted September 22, 2009 This one has been hashed over a few times before at http://forums.xisto.com/topic/96742-topic/?findpost=1064399314. I still recommend SpinRite (https://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mahesh2k 0 Report post Posted September 22, 2009 UBCD has few Disk repair utilities. You can check UBCD here. Also if you want to check for disk related errors and corrupted windows files then you've to open command prompt and type "sfc /scan". This will ask for XP cd but checks most of the windows file corruption & chkdsk errors.Other than that you should download your hard drive makers official site for some disk checking and repaid utility. Some hard drive makers do offer disk check utility. These utilities scan your computer online or offline. Some manufacturers which offers such utilities are :Seagate SeatoolsIBM / Hitachi Drive Fitness Test Maxtor Maxblast 3Maxtor PowerMaxWestern Digital Software & DriversFujitsu Utilities Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 18, 2010 How to fix errors 2503 and 2502 on a windows 7 OSHow To Repair Disk Errors And Bad SectorsI just aquired the errors 2503 and 2502 on my Windows 7 Home Premium OS. I can't install or uninstall downloads now. I have read many online tips and so far nothing will fix these errors. Any help or suggestions I'll appreciate. Thank you; Alf Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
