Soldato
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Ive been trying to stumble across something which may help keep various drives in order.
Ive found Hard disk sentinel which is quite good for pointing out problems but does nothing to solve it really.
I also tried Parted magic on a usb stick. Thats a decent collection and useful for SSD wipes.
However I have a hard disk drive with some kind of error. If I try chkdsk it will blue screen. If I try to copy the partitions or clone the drive it also fails. Parted Magic programs quit the attempt and returns to desktop.
The drives when used appear to work, store data but I cant backup them up easily so I can wipe them or investigate the presumably bad sectors.
Short question is, any programs that may be helpful would be good to hear about
Just a simple 1 pass bad block marker would be ideal. None of the data is essential so if its marked bad so be it but it cant be left as an open error
Ive found Hard disk sentinel which is quite good for pointing out problems but does nothing to solve it really.
I also tried Parted magic on a usb stick. Thats a decent collection and useful for SSD wipes.
However I have a hard disk drive with some kind of error. If I try chkdsk it will blue screen. If I try to copy the partitions or clone the drive it also fails. Parted Magic programs quit the attempt and returns to desktop.
The drives when used appear to work, store data but I cant backup them up easily so I can wipe them or investigate the presumably bad sectors.
Short question is, any programs that may be helpful would be good to hear about
Just a simple 1 pass bad block marker would be ideal. None of the data is essential so if its marked bad so be it but it cant be left as an open error