Filed under: Hard Disk | Tags: BAD SECTOR, Easyrecovery, Hard Disk, RECOVERMYFILES, Repair, USB Drive
Wow did I waste a lot of time trying to fix this one!
I’ve got an external USB drive with a Samsung F1 750GB drive installed and guess what it had a power spike to it and decided that a bad block would be placed conveniently in the middle of one of the 4 partitions I had setup on it! So after reading and googling I found a simple fix which I couldn’t believe after going around the houses. Yup our friend CHKDSK /R!
This built-in utility scanned my drive, found the bad sector clunked for a few minutes and then sorted it. I had wasted hours trying to use expensive programs like Spinrite 6 and backup utilities like Easy Recovery Professional and Recover My Files, which all stopped when they hit the bad sector.
So there you have it, open a command prompt and type CHKDSK /R against your drive letter – so mine was the d:\ so I entered CHKDSK D: /R
Hope that saves you some time, signing off.
