About Hard Drive Bad Sectors

A bad sector on a hard drive is simply a tiny cluster of storage space of the hard drive that appears to be defective. The sector won't respond to read or write requests. Bad sectors can occur on both traditional magnetic hard drives and modern solid-state drives, such as a hard drive, external HDD, USB flash drive, pen drive, or a memory card. There are two types of bad sectors: one resulting from physical damage that can't be repaired, and the other resulting from software errors that can be fixed. The common reasons that would lead to bad sectors include long-term use, malware, virus attack, scratch, and fall apart. 

If your hard disk is severely damaged, you should send it to a drive repair center immediately. In some cases, data recovery software and bad sector repair software could quickly remove the bad sectors without losing data on the drive. We will introduce a brilliant data recovery tool and how to use Flobo Hard Disk Repair software in the following parts.

Part 1. Recover Data from Sector Damaged Hard Drive

The first thing you should do before repairing hard drive bad sectors is to find and restore existing data. Here we recommend EaseUS free data recovery software. It would quickly scan and list your lost data on the damaged hard drive, and enable you to recover data in one-click. Let's check what else EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard can do:

  • Recover files from lost, deleted, or RAW partition.
  • Filter a specific file type and give you fast access to what you need.
  • Enable you to preview recoverable files.

Now download EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for free and follow the steps below to recover the existing data.

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Step 1. Scan the hard drive partition

Select the drive on your hard disk where you lost or deleted files. Click "Search for Lost Data" and let EaseUS data recovery software scan for all lost data and files on the selected drive.

select a location and scan hard drive

Step 2. Check the results

When the scan completes, you can apply the "Filter" feature or click the "Search files or folders" option to find the lost files on the hard drive.

Find and preview all lost hard drive data

Step 3. Restore lost hard drive data

Select wanted files that you lost on the drive and click "Recover" to save them to another location.

💡Tip: You can restore data on the local disks, external hard drives, and also the cloud storage.

Restore lost hard drive data.

If EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard doesn't find much of your data, follow Part 2 and apply Flobo Hard Disk Repair to repair existing bad sectors on your hard drive. And retry EaseUS data recovery software again to find as many lost files as you can.

Part 2. Repair Hard Disk Bad Sector with Flobo Hard Disk Repair 

Here we arrived at the specialized Flobo Hard Disk Repair, which is designed to fix hard disks damaged because of bad sectors. Other than the ability to repair damaged hard disks without affecting or changing existing data, one more brilliant feature of Flobo Hard Disk Repair is noticeable that it can check S.M.A.R.T. information, predict possible failure, read the current state of various life-critical parameters, and advise users to backup data and replace the hard disk.

Here is a tutorial video of how to repair hard drive bad sectors with Flobo Hard Disk Repair. You can go to its official website to download Flobo Hard Disk Repair and follow the steps introduced in this video to repair the hard drive from bad sectors. 

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