While running your Windows computer, you
may receive error notes suggesting that your hard disk drive might
have bad sectors. The errors are generally flagged as CRC or Cyclic
Redundancy Error(s).
Some visible symptoms are: Some of your
files and folders are missing from a partition, some files are
unreadable or corrupted, it takes way too long or is impossible to
access some files and folders from a particular location, and so on.
All these may be a result of bad sector problems on your computer’s
hard disk.
What are bad sectors on a hard
disk?
Sectors are small divisions of a hard
disk drive. And a bad sector on the hard drive is a sector or an
area on the drive where data cannot be written or accessed due to
some kind of physical error or inconsistencies of parity bits on the
disk. Any data that is written or contained on that particular area
is likely to get lost or corrupted. Data which is stored on the rest
of the hard disk will be unaffected and the disk will considerably
be usable as long as the bad sectors are not too many.
What causes bad sectors to appear
on hard disks?
Hard disk bad sectors are primarily due
to the magnetic fading of the hard drive and certain mechanical
faults. Due to prolonged usage, the magnetic areas of the hard disk
tend to lose its magnetic properties and thus its ability to retain
data on it. Such bad sectors on the hard disk have the tendency to
spread across the entire drive and are sometimes non-repairable.
Probable causes of bad sectors:
When these bad sectors spread on a hard
disk, it can result in system turning instable as important system
files are destroyed. However, data can be recovered and most damages
can be corrected by making use of Remo Recover utility.
Retrieving data
from bad sectors with the help of Remo Recover:
Remo Recover is a powerful hard disk recovery
application that will thoroughly examine all areas that are affected
with bad sectors to retrieve all contents from that hard disk. The
software will smartly create an image file of the volume that is
affected with bad sectors and will extract all meaningful
information from that file. You can then manually examine those
contents and save them to any healthy hard drive.
There are many additional features of Remo
Recover and some of them are listed below:
Step 1: Install Remo Recover and launch it to open its main screen. Select "Recover Partitions" option. Then, you will see a list of logical and physical drives available in the system. Choose the appropriate one and click "Scan" button.
Figure 1: Main Screen
Step 2: The software scans the drive now to find the partitions that were present in it. Once scanning is over, a list of found hard drive partitions are listed. Choose the partition from where you want to recover data and click "Scan" button to initiate the recovery process
Figure 2: List of Found Partitions
Step 3: Once scanning is completed, a list of recovered files are displayed in "Data View", and "File Type View"
Figure 3: Recovered Data View
Step 4: Now, take the advantage of its "Preview" option to preview each of the recovred files and evaluate its recovery results before saving
Figure 4: Preview Recovered Files
Step 5: If you are completely satisfied with the recovery results, then purchase its complete edition and save the recovered files
Figure 5: Save Recovered Data