what can I do roughly the bleak sector after scan disk within Xp and win98?

what can I do roughly the bleak sector after scan disk within Xp and win98?

The firm drive Mfg. (i.e. Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi, etc.) has drive utilities available for (free) download. I own worked on many computers and most of the time the Mfgrs. software be able to undamagingly move the data from the fruitless sector into a good portion of the drive.



This is why a tough drive may say 160GB. and show on the computers operating system as 149GB. This space is set aside specifically for this purpose.



freshly go to the Mfgrs. website look contained by "support" for their diagnostic utility.
Normally, the scandsk.exe file contains it's own ways of not single "finding" bad sector, but "moving" the data within that area to a better location on the tough drive, then "flagging" the desperate area so that the system will not attempt to place info into that nouns again. It's processes are not always see in conduct which is probably a good piece, seeing what it's really doing in the framework would be a bit too confusing on people, lol. Larry RadioShack.
Win98 - if the desperate sectors don't increase afterwards you just get a few bad ones and can close the eyes to them. If the bad sector increase each time you run scandisk next it is time to buy a new drive.



WinXp - at hand is no scandisk as such. You have to run chkdsk. Other than that impossible to tell apart info as above applies except you have to view it during the boot process. If you are continually getting a message that files had to be moved, it is time to replace the drive. IDE drives collectively don't have doomed to failure sectors reported unless they be either not formatted properly (unusual), have a momentary glitch like a brown out or are starting to go amiss (unlike the old MFM and RLL drives).