How to fix Disk I/O and bad sector errors...Help pls?

I recently had to reinstall my OS using an image file created by drive
image due to my primary disk reporting a SMART error.

I promoted my secondary disk to primary, did a quick NTFS format and
installed the image. All seemed ok until i created new image, which
reported errors at LBA 10,704,656 Data error (cyclic redundency check)

I got around this by instructind drive image to ignore bad sectors.
However Easy recovery reports I/O errors at Sectors 10705466, 10706246
and 10706251.

I have run chkdsk /f but it did not find any problems. Easy recovery
also crashes when carrying out a partition test.

Can anyone advise on a way (a free program maybe) of repairing Disk I/O
errors and correcting the bad sectors, or do i have to do a complete
full reformat and start again?

Regards
Martin

I promoted my secondary disk to primary, did a quick NTFS format and
installed the image. All seemed ok until i created new image, which
reported errors at LBA 10,704,656 Data error (cyclic redundency check)

I got around this by instructind drive image to ignore bad sectors.
However Easy recovery reports I/O errors at Sectors 10705466, 10706246
and 10706251.

I have run chkdsk /f but it did not find any problems. Easy recovery
also crashes when carrying out a partition test.

Can anyone advise on a way (a free program maybe) of repairing Disk I/O
errors and correcting the bad sectors, or do i have to do a complete
full reformat and start again?

Looks like you are going to have to buy a new drive. When a drive starts
reporting bad sectors it is usually all over.

Bad sectors are portions of the disk that have FAILED. You cannot fix them;
you buy a new harddrive.

--
DaveW



"Mystical" wrote in message
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I recently had to reinstall my OS using an image file created by drive
image due to my primary disk reporting a SMART error.

I promoted my secondary disk to primary, did a quick NTFS format and
installed the image. All seemed ok until i created new image, which
reported errors at LBA 10,704,656 Data error (cyclic redundency check)

I got around this by instructind drive image to ignore bad sectors.
However Easy recovery reports I/O errors at Sectors 10705466, 10706246
and 10706251.

I have run chkdsk /f but it did not find any problems. Easy recovery
also crashes when carrying out a partition test.

Can anyone advise on a way (a free program maybe) of repairing Disk I/O
errors and correcting the bad sectors, or do i have to do a complete
full reformat and start again?

Regards
Martin

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:11:32 +0100, Mystical
wrote:

I recently had to reinstall my OS using an image file created by drive
image due to my primary disk reporting a SMART error.

I promoted my secondary disk to primary, did a quick NTFS format and
installed the image. All seemed ok until i created new image, which
reported errors at LBA 10,704,656 Data error (cyclic redundency check)

I got around this by instructind drive image to ignore bad sectors.
However Easy recovery reports I/O errors at Sectors 10705466, 10706246
and 10706251.

I have run chkdsk /f but it did not find any problems. Easy recovery
also crashes when carrying out a partition test.

Can anyone advise on a way (a free program maybe) of repairing Disk I/O
errors and correcting the bad sectors, or do i have to do a complete
full reformat and start again?

Regards
Martin

You might check your power supply voltages and question it's
health if it's a generic.

You shouldn't need to format at all, not that time you mentioned
nor again, that is lost and recreated as per the image.

"Mystical" wrote in message . ..
Can anyone advise on a way (a free program maybe) of repairing Disk I/O
errors and correcting the bad sectors, or do i have to do a complete
full reformat and start again?

For some reason this reminds me of the guy who designed the titanic asking when the ship will be underway. The reply, of course, was
that it was going to sink. :-)

--
Michael Culley

Mystical enlightened us all with the following:

I recently had to reinstall my OS using an image file created by drive
image due to my primary disk reporting a SMART error.

I promoted my secondary disk to primary, did a quick NTFS format and
installed the image. All seemed ok until i created new image, which
reported errors at LBA 10,704,656 Data error (cyclic redundency check)

I got around this by instructind drive image to ignore bad sectors.
However Easy recovery reports I/O errors at Sectors 10705466, 10706246
and 10706251.

I have run chkdsk /f but it did not find any problems. Easy recovery
also crashes when carrying out a partition test.

Can anyone advise on a way (a free program maybe) of repairing Disk I/O
errors and correcting the bad sectors, or do i have to do a complete
full reformat and start again?

Regards
Martin

Here's a theory, correct me if I'm wrong.
If you created the image from the original HD with the SMART failure, then
cloned it to your secondary drive, presumably good, then the bad sectors
being reported may be false positives. The image itself contains the map
for the bad sectors, as it in all probablity was a forensic style image
which maps out EVERY little bit of the old file system, not just the old
OS. I would run an OS independant diagnostic on it (usually available from
the manufacturer) and see what it reports. If it reports no errors, install
a fresh copy of the OS and see what happens.
Just a theory.

Wheaty

In article , Wheaty
nopers says...
Mystical enlightened us all with the following:

I recently had to reinstall my OS using an image file created by drive
image due to my primary disk reporting a SMART error.

I promoted my secondary disk to primary, did a quick NTFS format and
installed the image. All seemed ok until i created new image, which
reported errors at LBA 10,704,656 Data error (cyclic redundency check)

I got around this by instructind drive image to ignore bad sectors.
However Easy recovery reports I/O errors at Sectors 10705466, 10706246
and 10706251.

I have run chkdsk /f but it did not find any problems. Easy recovery
also crashes when carrying out a partition test.

Can anyone advise on a way (a free program maybe) of repairing Disk I/O
errors and correcting the bad sectors, or do i have to do a complete
full reformat and start again?

Regards
Martin

Here's a theory, correct me if I'm wrong.
If you created the image from the original HD with the SMART failure, then
cloned it to your secondary drive, presumably good, then the bad sectors
being reported may be false positives. The image itself contains the map
for the bad sectors, as it in all probablity was a forensic style image
which maps out EVERY little bit of the old file system, not just the old
OS. I would run an OS independant diagnostic on it (usually available from
the manufacturer) and see what it reports. If it reports no errors, install
a fresh copy of the OS and see what happens.
Just a theory.

Wheaty

Thanks, this is an interesting theory which i had thought of, ie cloning
a OS partition might clone the bad sectors onto another drive.
However i used Maxtor power max and it reported errors...that it claimed
to have fixed. Question....Im i right in saying that it just marks the
sectors as bad and therfore ignored for use by the OS? therfore the
Drive is still good to use?

Im gonna run with this drive as it is only 2 years old, if i loose it
then no big deal as i wanna get some SATA drives next.....so the sooner
te drive fails the better
Regards
Martin

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:04:58 +0100, Mystical
wrote:


Here's a theory, correct me if I'm wrong.
If you created the image from the original HD with the SMART failure, then
cloned it to your secondary drive, presumably good, then the bad sectors
being reported may be false positives. The image itself contains the map
for the bad sectors, as it in all probablity was a forensic style image
which maps out EVERY little bit of the old file system, not just the old
OS. I would run an OS independant diagnostic on it (usually available from
the manufacturer) and see what it reports. If it reports no errors, install
a fresh copy of the OS and see what happens.
Just a theory.

Wheaty

Thanks, this is an interesting theory which i had thought of, ie cloning
a OS partition might clone the bad sectors onto another drive.
However i used Maxtor power max and it reported errors...that it claimed
to have fixed. Question....Im i right in saying that it just marks the
sectors as bad and therfore ignored for use by the OS? therfore the
Drive is still good to use?

Im gonna run with this drive as it is only 2 years old, if i loose it
then no big deal as i wanna get some SATA drives next.....so the sooner
te drive fails the better


NO, it does not clone bad sectors onto another drive. The
"theory" is not how DI works, it would report errors initially.

Your problem is outside of DI, probably cables, heat, or power
related... to the extent that now any drives in the system
(perhaps even those added as replacements) may be

"Mystical" wrote in message . ..
to have fixed. Question....Im i right in saying that it just marks the
sectors as bad and therfore ignored for use by the OS? therfore the
Drive is still good to use?

Maybe, maybe not. Bad sectors are a sign the drive is failing and more bad sectors are likely. The drive might run for years or fail
tommorrow so should not be relied apon.

--
Michael Culley

kony enlightened us all with the following:


NO, it does not clone bad sectors onto another drive. The
"theory" is not how DI works, it would report errors initially.

It was a theory based on the facts of the situation. I am not 100% sure as
I don't use DI (I use different utilities). It seemed a bit strange to be
reporting bad sectors on two hard drives at the same time. As for utilities
like DI reporting bad sectors initially, well, that's not true either. I
have had many partition and drive clones go without reporting bad sectors
using DI, Ghost, and many other cloning utilities. Nothing is perfect.