Hard disk recovery from Bad tracks

What will you do when there are bad tracks on your hard disk? The bad track of hard disk happens frequently as most of us do not know how to maintenance hard disk. The improper operation is easy to cause a bad tracks.

The category of bad tack of hard disk:

In addition to the poor quality and aging of hard disk, most of bad tracks are caused by improper use. As to the property of hard disk bad track, it can be divided into logical bad track and physical bad track.  And logical bad track is usually caused by software or some improper operations. The logical bad track can be restored. The  physical bad track is a problem in hard disk platters problem which usually cannot be restored by software.

In this situations, you should pay attention to a bad track.

1.    When you open a files or run a program, the hard disk load and repeated error, or prompt file damage, or you have made a great effort to make it. Sometimes, the blue screen will happen.

2.    The reading sound of hard disk are changed to a strange sound from the normal grindings.

3.    The system cannot boot properly as you have exclude a virus infection, and shows “Sector not found” or “General error in reading drive C”.

4. You cannot format your hard disk successfully. The progress bar will be stopped in formatting process and report error.

5.  It will automatically run Scandisk to scan disk error every time when boot.

6. When performing the FDISK demand, the progress bar will step forward and backward in the process.

7. When boot the computer, it cannot boot from hard disk. When boot from floppy disk, you will see the drive letter of floppy disk but you also cannot enter the system. Even if you use the SYS demand conductive system, it still cannot make it. In these cases, the boot system of hard disk may have problems.

Some genuine software write data on certain sectors on hard disk, but other software cannot access to this sector. In that case, the hard disk inspector may mistaken it for a logical bad track. Actually, in that case, you don’t need to restore it.

If you accidently reboot the system when the hard disk are reading data, the logical bad track may occurs. More than that, it may cause physical bad track. You can use the window’s disk utilities to scan the hard disk and restore errors automatically.

You can follow these steps:

Choose the drive letter in “My computer” and right click, choose “tool” –“ Start checking” in the pops up driver property. And then choose” automatically restore files system errors” and “ scan and restore bad sectors”.

The bad tracks may still exist as you have tried the above method. Therefore, the best way is to backup your data and then repartitioning or format the disk. If it is only a logical bad track, you are sure to restore by this way.

In conclude, the best way is to make a backup and pay attention to prevent your hard disk from bad tracks in daily life. If there is a serious problem which cause a data loss, you can ask Hdata recovery engineers to help you in disk recovery.