Hi!

I have got a notebook with recovery solution software installed, but I decided against the recovery area and to free the space instead (7GB).

The recovery area is protected with a "host protected area" and it seems that the bios sets this command every time at boot- but it can be disabled for one "session". If you want to delete the area you must boot a special software being in that "session" and perform a "deletion" there. I have done that and right after that I resized the last partition by that 7GB.
That was a while ago.
Yesterday I ran chkdsk and it complained about bad sectors and a second Bootsector that couldn't be written. Then I ran testdisk and saw hat the HPA must have been active again (the partition was 7GB greater than the "physical" drive was able to give- so the partitiontable addressed into "nowhere"). I now have "redeleted" the recovery area again- testdisk doesn't complain any more- but:

Now I have 7GB marked as bad sectors!

How do I get rid of them?

TIA,
caveman.

It's ur first mistake that u ran chkdsk (if data available in this area)...
image the hd to a good condition hd to get back ur data.
dont do any job to the source hd.

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There was apparently no data in this area.
The only choice is to copy the data on to another hd and to format it?
There is no tool to "unmark" NTFS bad sector marks?

That's bad...

TIA,
Caveman.