Just how good is Chkdsk

platypus · 27 Jan 2010 at 10:01

This is something I use a fair bit, but I must admit that I use it mostly out of good faith.

Is there anything better? Anything more powerful for fixing buggered hard drives? I know at the end of the day its best to get the data back and then move to a brand new one, but if thats not always possible I've used chkdsk to fix bad sectors before.

ajstan · 27 Jan 2010 at 13:24

Well buggered in what sense? OS is buggered or its completely gone?

davethe11 · 27 Jan 2010 at 13:30

HDD manufacturers offer diagnostics software for checking the condition of their drives usually, don't know how they compare to Chkdsk I'm afraid, but can't do any harm using them as well as Chkdsk.

platypus · 27 Jan 2010 at 16:34

ajstan said:
Well buggered in what sense? OS is buggered or its completely gone?

Bad sectors, corrupted data, etc.

Hoodlum · 27 Jan 2010 at 16:50

It reallocates data from bad sectors fine. Nothing actually "fixes" them.