Windows 10: Show bad sectors from a previous HDD scan

Earlier today I woke my desktop from hibernation, only it was going so slowly I checked the Event Viewer and found numerous "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block" errors. I ran a repair-volume from PowerShell but it found no errors. Another error message read "Volume C: \Device\HarddiskVolume2 needs to be taken offline for a short time to perform a Spot Fix...", which may have completed before I issued the repair-volume command.Is there a way to show the bad blocks, if

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HDD Bad Sector

Hi Nataniel!

I am not sure what your question is exactly, but one thing I'd recommend for sure will be to look for a replacement drive since there is already a bad sector on your current one.

Basically there are two kinds of bad sectors - hardware and software:

• Hardware ones are caused by physical damage or becoming magnetically fixed, and they are unrepairable. In short, once they appear it's only a matter of time (no way to say how long) until the HDD fails.
• Software bad sectors on the other hand occur when something called an Error Correction Code (ECC) doesn't match the contents of the hard drive. These can be repaired by overwriting the data on the drive with zeroes (a.k.a. low level formatting) and sometimes
  by running a **chkdsk [write the letter of the drive:] /r** in the CMD.

As for getting the information from the drive if one of the partitions fail, most likely you won't be able to, which is why I'd suggest to make a regular backup of your most important data.

Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions you may have.

 

External HDD Bad sectors

Hi. My External usb scsi hdd 2 tb have suddenly failed and have bad sectors a lot of them i need recovery app to recover some backup. I tried to format with phone and suceed and then format with pc but still is it possible to recover and does Microsoft have some free software for this? Chkdsk /f doesnt show bad sectors but hdd sentinel shows a lot and also computer slow down while this external hdd is plugged in i have a lot of valuable things on this hdd please help me!

Hard disk with this problem is this https://www.seagate.com/products/external-hard-drives/basic-external-hard-drive/

 

Bad sectors on Seagate ST2000DM001 HDD. The end?

Hi, I'm Anvar, I'd be glad to help you today on this

A bad sector on a hard drive is simply a tiny cluster of storage space — a sector — of the hard drive that appears to be defective, it is a physical damage and there is a chance to develop more bad sectors. disk utility software such as CHKDSK, SCANDISK, Windows built-in bad sector repair tools to detect or repair bad sector but if the number of bad sectors increases it may take forever trying to fix and it will end up the Disk unusable gradually.

Suggest get all data backed up to a safer location and install new SSD/HDD instead of trying to fix it

Hope this helps. Let us know if you need further assistance.