A bad sector on a hard drive is simply a tiny cluster of storage space of the hard drive that appears to be defective. The sector won't respond to read or write requests. Bad sectors can occur on both traditional magnetic hard drives and modern solid-state drives, such as a hard drive, external HDD, USB flash drive, pen drive, or a memory card. There are two types of bad sectors: one resulting from physical damage that can't be repaired, and the other resulting from software errors that can be fixed. The common reasons that would lead to bad sectors include long-term use, malware, virus attack, scratch, and fall apart.
If your hard disk is severely damaged, you should send it to a drive repair center immediately. In some cases, data recovery software and bad sector repair software could quickly remove the bad sectors without losing data on the drive. We will introduce a brilliant data recovery tool and how to use Flobo Hard Disk Repair software in the following parts.
The first thing you should do before repairing hard drive bad sectors is to find and restore existing data. Here we recommend Qiling Free Data Recovery Wizard. It would quickly scan and list your lost data on the damaged hard drive, and enable you to recover data in one-click. Let's check what else Deep Data Recovery can do:
Now download Deep Data Recovery for free and follow the steps below to recover the existing data.
Step 1. Choose file types and click "Next" to start
Run Deep Data Recovery on your computer. Choose file types and click "Next" to start.
Step 2. Scan the hard drive partition
Select the drive on your hard disk where you lost or deleted files. Click "Scan" and let Qiling data recovery software scan for all lost data and files on the selected drive.
Step 3. Check the results
When the scan completes, you can apply the "Filter" feature or click the "Search files or folders" option to find the lost files on the hard drive.
Step 4. Restore lost hard drive data
Select wanted files that you lost on the drive and click "Recover" to save them to another location.
If Deep Data Recovery doesn't find much of your data, follow Part 2 and apply Flobo Hard Disk Repair to repair existing bad sectors on your hard drive. And retry Qiling data recovery software again to find as many lost files as you can.
Here we arrived at the specialized Flobo Hard Disk Repair, which is designed to fix hard disks damaged because of bad sectors. Other than the ability to repair damaged hard disks without affecting or changing existing data, one more brilliant feature of Flobo Hard Disk Repair is noticeable that it can check S.M.A.R.T. information, predict possible failure, read the current state of various life-critical parameters, and advise users to backup data and replace the hard disk.
Here is a tutorial video of how to repair hard drive bad sectors with Flobo Hard Disk Repair. You can go to its official website to download Flobo Hard Disk Repair and follow the steps introduced in this video to repair the hard drive from bad sectors.