Timeline for How to *quickly* get a list of files that have bad sectors/blocks/clusters/whatever?
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| May 23, 2019 at 20:37 | comment | added | GabrielB | CHKDSK should NEVER be used on a HDD suspected of having physical issues. It only fixes logical issues as far as the NTFS filesystem is concerned. It might further increase the amount of damage without recovering a single byte in the process. See the reply by Scott Petrack for the best course of action in that kind of situation. As to regularly assessing the condition of storage devices on Windows systems, I highly recommand HD Sentinel, commercial software but worth every penny considering that it can warn of an impending disaster at the first signs of trouble, and thus prevent it. | |
| Nov 6, 2017 at 23:43 | comment | added | Chloe | This doesn't explain how to get the files with bad sectors. | |
| S Mar 26, 2014 at 1:07 | review | Late answers | |||
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| S Mar 26, 2014 at 1:07 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 26, 2014 at 0:50 | history | answered | Donald Harkness | CC BY-SA 3.0 |