utility to manually mark a bad sector

[danrevella]

do you know that such utikty does exist?

[danrevella]

I know mhdd does perform the operation, but marking many bad sector is a long operation, and it is NOT performable via f.e. a batch file.....

[rameez]

Victoria or Mhdd can remap erase llf bad sector good tool for badsector without fw problem .

[danrevella]

my problem is that I want to eliminate the red and brown block (weak sector), but even after a LLf, a remap with mhdd or Victoria, these weak sectors remain!!!
Problem is (i think) that my re-locate table is full.... smart tell me that i have raw sector 650!!!!! (max i remember had to be 50.......)
For this reason I have used makebad command by MHDD to transform these weak sector in really bad sector, so at least Windows mark they as defective and OS no longer get access to they....
But use makebad is a very long time operation: one sector per time......

[bubu321]

hi,
- try use vivard solution

http://www.copyrsoft.com/en/products/02/

[danrevella]

Thanks bubu321,
but the utility I'm searchin for have to let me the possibility in marking as bad sector the sector number i want!!!
In other way: an utility who is able in transforming f.e. a good sector in a bad sector.

[rameez]

The Last hope for u is pc3000 clear glist function and use logical scanning by using functions add defect to plist .

[danrevella]

I understand, but if hd have so many defect that the p/g list may not cover all, the only way i think is manually mark ad UNC these weak sector, so formatting under windows, will let that OS no longer have access to it.
My hd is so damage that you may think to it as a very old hd when no defect re-allocation table exist.........
BTW with the procedure i described: mark with mhdd -->makebad command, now (even if chkdsk tell me I have bad sector) hd works very well with no slowdown at all.
For this reason I'm searchin an utility able in manually generate UNC sectors......
Thanks to all!!!

[myrella]

I made some resaearch and I found a website who has a lot of helpful link like manufacturers website..you can find there software to repir your hard disk bad sectors. <removed, spam site> Good luck.

[danrevella]

I made some resaearch and I found a website who has a lot of helpful link like manufacturers website..you can find there software to repir your hard disk bad sectors. <removed, spam site> Good luck.

You were so kind, but what I need is an utility able in generate bad sectors, not repairing them.....
Bye

[danrevella]

the utility is on the way, in a few day will be ready for beta testers, but where may I post it?
Are there any volentereus beta tester for it?

[Dmitry Postrigan]

danrevella
You are welcome to upload it somewhere here: http://files.hddguru.com/index.php

After you upload it, please send me a PM and I will approve the file.

[Valen]

so what about the utility?

[danrevella]

My utility is here:
http://files.hddguru.com/download/Software/Makebad/

[Valen]

O, thank you!
The problem is that I have a sector, attept to write to which hungs the HDD forever (until shutdown). So I does not need to scan the disk - just mark. Looikng into readme and faq, I still have no idea - could your program just mark BB without previous scanning?
I usually use Victoria, lot less experienced with MHDD.

[fzabkar]

I suspect that MakeBad makes use of the ATA Write Uncorrectable command to flag a sector as "pseudo-uncorrectable". CHKDSK would then add this sector to the $BadClus metafile.