Bad sector's ???

Jordon Bedwell jordon at envygeeks.com
Wed Jul 21 11:33:24 UTC 2010


On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Larry Shields wrote:

> I was just using the program Disk Utility, and went through each on of my hard drives, it shows
> that my 250gb drive has a few bad sector's on it...
> 
> My question is there a way to correct this, without loosing any data...???
> 
> Thanks for any help...
> 
> Larry
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Please stop sending HTML mail with ugly yellow backgrounds and you cannot fix bad sectors, this is a hardware issue, if your HD isn't as old as this P4 sitting here you should also have S.M.A.R.T which would have routed the bad sectors already.



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