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I've used HDDScan and I found a LOT of bad sectors, but only on a specific portion of my disk. Probably the problem is isolated, I hope.

I'd like to 'move' data from this sectors, because I know that a bad sector can be read, but not written. Is there a software that automatically, when found bad sectors will move, preserving, the data in these sectors to a more safest place?

Data preservation is fundamental for me.

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If data preservation is your aim, get a new disk as soon as possible. You will, of course, already have at least 2 separate backups of the data anyway!

There is software that is aimed at preserving data on drives with problems. Unfortunately, the majority of it is not free. Spinrite from grc.com will do very thorough scans of your drive resetting data issues from drifting heads and ensuring that damaged sectors are recovered. However, it is around USD90.

Julian Knight
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The HDD does what you are describing automatically when it discovers a bad sector (until it runs out of spares). If you want to force it to scan for (and handle), bad sectors rather than wait for them to be discovered, chkdsk /r will do that.

After you run chkdsk /r, additional bad sectors should be extremely rare on a drive that is not in the process of failing. If you are doing this because you are aware of bad sectors, repeat the process periodically (say at least once per week for at least a month). If you see any additional bad sectors, that is a pretty good indication that the drive is dying.

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