Bad sectors
 

Does anyone know what to do to fix bad sectors, and not using scan disk?

low level format ?

Yes, open MS DOS and type "MakeWindowsPerfect 1" without the quotes. Microsoft forgot to mention this feature to prevent your comp from crashing, but I guess they can't be blamed. After all, they tend to hand us high quality products like Access and Excel.

are u out of ur damn mind? makewindowsperfect? HA i cant believe u tried to be serious about that

lol it was pretty good tho. im gonna die if he comes back here and sez he tried that

Ok, nevermind, I got this problem fixed after 12 hours of running scan disk, so its all good now.

In my experience, bad sectors grow. It is my suggestion that if you have a hard drive with bad sectors that you buy a new one and transfer the contents in the near future.

But you already knew that, right?
--WetWired

Yeah... or reformat.

Reformatting doesn't get rid of bad sectors, it just finds them and tells DOS/Windows not to use them.

Which is really just a band-aid solution if you have a gash out of one of the platters.
--WetWired

Well then I guess you'd just have to buy a new drive.