I had a pictorial representation of where it was located, but no clue as to where it actually was on the drive or what file was stored there hence, I don’t know what to relocate. Hence, I couldn’t view whatever result checkdisk reported.Īs I mentioned, this was one bad sector out of several hundred thousand. In the morning, I couldn’t get the screen to turn back on and had to restart Windows. That’s the most annoying thing about all this: I had set it not to go to sleep when plugged, just for the screen to turn off. If it’s out of warranty, you may have no choice but to replace it. The long and the short of it is, I apparently only have one bad sector, and the disk does seem functional.
I ran Partition Manager again, and a bad sector showed up in the same location, so obviously it wasn’t repaired. The computer shut down at some point during the night, so I didn’t get to review the results. Next, I tried to repair it with Windows checkdisk (using parameters /f/r/x) overnight. Sadly, the program doesn’t have a utility to repair the bad sector, but its graphic display showed me where the bad sector was. The surface scan took about 8 hours and located a whopping one bad sector.
So I downloaded and ran the free version of EaseUs Partition Master 14.5. With Data Lifeguard, my drive passed the Quick Check, but failed the Extended Check with an unspecified number of Bad Sector errors, which the program was unable to fix.