Hi all,
I have a bad disk (a disk with bad sectors) that I want to keep for reasons.
Vast areas of the disk are ok, a few are not.
with the command
chkdsk /R, Windows will find the physical bad sectors, and build a list of them, and tell NTFS to avoid them.
That is good.
1/ I have found that sometimes, if you launch
chkdsk /R a second time, it will find more bad sectors. Sometimes less.
It is because
chkdsk /R is agressive and try to retest the previously found bad sectors.
This is not what we want here.
2/ I can imagine that the physical defects are being bounced inside the disk when the stupid
chkdsk /R tries to retest them.
This is not what we want here.
3/ On the contrary, what we want is to avoid all contact with an area that have been previously marked bad.
Also, when an area demonstrate slow read/write performance compared to its neighbor, we also would want to mark it bad.
4/ Slowly, with each pass, we would rule out all weak areas, and be left with the ok areas.
5/ Many people have tried this in the past. Some people tried to make dummy files, containing the bad sectors, that you would leave forever in a folder.
This is not what we want here. We want to make use of the NTFS bad sectors list. No dummy files.
6/ Some people tried to lock the bad sectors in unused partitions.
This is not what we want here. We want only one full partition.
7/ On any other forum, people would quickly respond : "Don't do that, buy a new disk"
This is not what we want here. This is hddguru elite forum, problems are solved, not avoided.
Example of such :
https://superuser.com/questions/694422/ ... a-recoverySo my question is, is there in existence, a piece of software that would mark NTFS sector as bad, not try to recover it, not try to reallocate in the free sector zone, just mark it as bad and never touch it again, and mark bad sectors with slow performance ?
Basically
chkdsk /R without the stupid
retest behavior.