How to Repair Bad Sectors on Hard Drive
Bad sectors is a problem that often occurs on the hard drive. There are several reasons that cause bad sectors on the hard drive. Generally, there are two types of bad sectors. Physical (physical) and non-physical or bad sector in software. Physical bad sector is caused the hard disk’s plate is dirt, collided, fallen down, etc. To repair physical bad sectors you need help from a professional technician to fix the problem. While the non-physical bad sector, you can repair it yourself.
to Repair Bad Sectors on Hard Drive you can use free software such as HDD Low Level Format Tool. HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool can be used free of charge but with limited speed 180 GB per hour.
Before rapair bad sector on hard drive, it better to check the hard drive. Because repairing process requires a few hours (depending to hard drive capacity). To check on the hard disk you can use “windows Surface Scanner” software. Windows Surface Scanner is free sofware that support for al type of Hard Disk ATA, SCSI, USB, etc. Download Windows Surface Scanner.
How to Repair Bad Sectors on Hard Drive Using HDD Low Level Format Tool
HDD Low Level Format Tool is my favorit tool to repair bad sector on hard drive. HDD LLF can be download official website HDD guru’s website and install the software after download it. Download HDD LLF tool. Follow these steps to repair HDD low level format using the HDD guru’s tool:
- Run HDD Low Level Format tools in your PC and then select the Hard drive to format.
- Click on continue button.
- Select “LOW-LEVEL-FORMAT tab” then click “format this device” button to start formatting the hard drive. The format process process requires a few minutes/hours depending to the hard disk size/capacity
HDD Low Level Format Tool support on SATA, IDE, SAS, SCSI or SSD hard disk drive types.
Warning: Make sure to backup the data on hard drive before doing the steps above because the data cannot be recovered after the format process.