Bad Clusters in my Hard Drive, Wha To Do?

Hello Guyz..

I've got a really annoying problem and its of bad clusters... All my work I did was in my D Drive which was infacted by the bad clusters... I used scan disk.. that didn work.. cuz it was too slow.. but evantually, i had to format my D drive.. but that was talking toooo much time.. like day before yesturday when i came back from the college.. i started the format and till yesturday it was only don 63 percent.. but i broke that and restarted my comp.. now this dosent seem to work.. Do you guyz know any other program that can perhaps fix these errors ? or just format the drive in a little better and faster way ???

Plz Help

Check the manufactures site. they usually have a utility format program geared towards their drives. Norton and PCTools also have programs. I've used r-studio to recover partitions from formatted drives, but you need to have enough space on another drive to hold the recovered data. You can pick what you recover and what you don't.

Also, make sure you're using the right drivers and windows disk settings for your particular OS. there are performance features you don't want turned on, and some you do want. They vary by drive type/manufacturer and OS.

Scandisk speed constraints are the amount of memory in the machine, the size of the disk, and the number of errors. The only one you can alter is the amount of memory.

A few bad cluster are often caused by shutting the machine down imporperly, or it it just hangs. A lot of bad clusters indicate physical damage to the disk. This can be caused by things such as jarring the machine (or smacking it in frustration) during I/O, bad disk controller, or power supply fluctuations.

IMHO, once your bad clusters get above 1 to 3 % of the number of physical (not logical) clusters, the disk is doomed.

I go with dpyers on this one, You can normally download a utility that can help diagnose and sometimes help fix a drive. Warning, if your drive is getting bad sectors and you map them out or get your drive going, it may not be for long. This kind of fault means your drive is becoming unreliable and you need to change it fast before you start loosing valuable data. Drive do not cost loads today and it is not worth taking the chance.