The truth of the matter is; you can’t repair bad sectors on a hard drive. Receiving ‘Bad Read’ errors or I/O errors from a hard drive is not the type of problem that can be remedied or ignored. The following is an explanation of how hard drives are designed and how a bad sector revealing […]
What Does CHKDSK Really Do? From a Software Engineers View
I wish I had a nickel for every potential client that has called the shop and explained to me that they have a hard drive that is locking up (bad sectors usually) and it won’t populate the file system. As I am listening I hear things like “I put it in an external enclosure and […]
External USB Hard Drive Recovery
USB drives have been around for several years now and because of that fact data, has been compiled that reflects the type of files a USB drive will store. In addition, I apply my experience, to the types of damage that a USB enclosure will sustain. The following is a method for not only helping […]