How to Remove Bad Sectors from Hard Disk Permanently

This post will show you 2 free methods of how to remove bad sectors from hard disk permanently, including CMD and a third-party hard disk bad sector repair tool.

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By Dervish / Updated on February 11, 2024

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★ Main Solutions:

🚀Command Prompt Open CMD first. Then, input “chkdsk g: /f /r /x” and press “Enter”.
🔓AOMEI Partition Assistant Run it, click "Advanced" and then select "Check Partition".

Case: How to remove bad sectors from hard disk permanently

 

 

Hey, I have an old hard disk and has some bad sectors on it. But it still can store and retrieve data. What I want to know is how can I repair hard disk bad sectors? Is there any free software I can use to fix the bad sectors or remove bad sectors on hard drive? All suggestions are appreciated in advance!”

 

What is the bad sectors?

Bad Sectors

Before removing bad sectors from hard drive, let us first understand what is the bad sector?

The bad sectors issue is normally caused by physical damage to the surface of the disk or failure of the flash transistors. In addition to the quality problems of itself, natural aging and improper use will also cause bad sectors. If your hard drive has bad sectors, you may not be able to access the data on it and there is the risk of data loss. Therefore, it is necessary to clear the bad sectors of the hard disk!

Repairing bad sectors of a disk is mainly divided into physical repair and logical repair. The former refers to repairing bad sectors by replacing the hard disk, which requires professional technicians to operate and costs more. Logical repair refers to the way through the software to repair bad sectors, this method is relatively simple, can be operated by yourself. The principle is to detect the bad sectors in the hard disk through software, and mark the bad sectors as unavailable, so that the operating system will no longer use the bad sectors to achieve the purpose of repairing the bad sectors.

How to eliminate bad sectors on hard drive

It's okay if you don't know how to remove bad sectors, here show you 2 common ways of how to remove bad sectors from hard disk permanently, including Command Prompt and a hard disk bad sector repair software.

▶ Method 1. Remove bad sectors from hard disk via CMD

To repair hard disk bad sector, try CHKDKS command prompt may be a good idea for experienced users, which can find and fix bad sectors, errors, or any other disk problems. Here are the specific steps of removing bad sectors from the hard disk via CMD:

Step 1. You should run the "Command Prompt" first.

Press “Windows” + “R” to open the Run box, typing “cmd” in it and press “Enter” to open it.

Step 2. After that, type in correct commands to remove bad sectors.

Input “chkdsk g: /f /r /x” and press “Enter”. (Here, “g” is the drive letter of the disk you want to check.)

CHKDSK

This option will run the CHKDSK to check and repair bad sectors or other disk errors on G: volume. The “/f” parameter tells CHKDSK to fix any errors it finds, “/r” tells it to locate the bad sectors on the drive and recover readable information, and “/x” forces the drive to dismount before the process starts.

And now you can see the information of the disk such as disk space parameters, file size, and the number of bad sectors.

▶ Method 2. Remove bad sectors from hard disk with AOMEI Partition Assistant

You may find it a bit complicated to use CMD to remove bad sectors. Actually, if you are not familiar with the command line, it may cause other problems like data loss. How to solve this problem? Don’t be worry! You can use a third-party bad sector repair software to complete this operation very easily.

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is a powerful disk manager which provides many powerful functions like Check Partition. And you can use it to easily remove bad sectors from hard disk in Windows 11/10/8/7, Windows XP, as well as Windows Vista. Free download the software and see the step-by-step guide:

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★Tip:
If you plan to remove bad sectors in Windows Server, please turn to Server Edition.

Step 1. Install and run AOMEI Partition Assistant. Right-click the partition you want to check and select “Advanced” > “Check Partition”.

Advanced Check Partition

Step 2. In the pop-up window, select the way of checking errors to perform. There are three choices, and here we choose the first one “Check partition and fix errors in this …”. Then, click “OK” to continue.

Check Partition And Fix Errors

Step 3. After that, you will see the window below. After the progress is completed, click “OK”.

Check Partition For Errors Completed

Thus, you have already successfully removed bad sectors from the hard disk permanently.

Conclusion

How to remove bad sectors from hard disk permanently? AOMEI Partition Assistant can be the best choice for you! You can easily remove the bad sectors from hard disk in just a few steps, and it is easier than the command line. Besides Check Partition, it also provides many other powerful functions like format/resize/delete the partition, Rebuild MBR, and so on. You can also use it to solve problems like the Current read-only state yes. If you want to recover the lost volume, you can upgrade to Professional Version.

Dervish
Dervish · Staff Editor
Dervish is an English editor of AOMEI Technology; He is delicated to offering users easy and effecitve solutions for issuses related to disks and partitoins. In his spare time, he enjoy wathcning films, playing footable, traveling and so on.