HDD Regenerator and External HDDs

ritcH · 12 Mar 2006 at 12:23

Is there any way to use HDD Regenerator on external drives? I have a 1TB external drive which contains 4 250GB drives. I can't physically get to them because they are contained within a metal enclosure which can't be removed. One of them has bad sectors and many of my files are no longer accessible.

When I run HDD Regenerator from boot only my internal drives appear, so is there another way with this program. Or is there another program I can use to repair the bad sectors?

cheers,
ritch.

tomos · 12 Mar 2006 at 15:09

cant you just run chkdsk from windows? that would run a surface scan on the drives to recover whats available once it's unmounted the drive

although, bad sectors are physically damaged portions on the drive arent they? so they cant be 'repaired' - unless its some weird software/firmware err i suppose (i think)

ritcH · 12 Mar 2006 at 18:49

apparently HDD Regenerator restores bad sectors and I was having problems with my main internal drive and it fixed that. Now I'm having issues with my external drive but can't seem to work out how to get the program to see it! I don't want to run chkdsk until I've confirmed I can't use HDD Regenerator on the external drive. If it doesn't work I'll have to format and then run chkdsk to mark the bad sectors I guess.

url for HDD Regenerator if you want to read..
http://www.dposoft.net/

tomos · 12 Mar 2006 at 19:21

if the bootable cd they mention on the site wont see the drives, then presumably it doesnt have the drivers needed. dont know if you're using firewire or what.

maybe have a look at the contents of the cd. you may have a way of adding other drivers in. failing that, if you can only run this prog through a bootdisk you could just use virtual pc or something.

its taking the *really* long way around but you could give the v.PC access to the drive so the boot disk would then (hopefully) see it and do its thing?

MrSeanKon · 4 Apr 2008 at 13:09

I searched on the forum about mark bad sectors and found this thread.
On earlier Windows edition (especially MS-DOS RULEZ) the operational system marked the bad sectors.
Now it does not.
Someone at MSN told me about HD TUNE PRO.
Flobo HD Bad Sector Repairer repairs bad sectors he said.
Anyway what are your ideas? :rolleyes:

badbob · 4 Apr 2008 at 13:13

Repairing bad sectors isn't worth it, as they still have a high error read rate. I'd just leave them be. I'd be prepared to accept you've lost some of the files...just run a read/write utility which'll scan and mark bad sectors. I had one a while ago it logged suspect clusters, and could manuallly add bad clusters.