How to retrieve files from bad drive

Gentlemen I tested my hard drive and it has bad sectors, is there a program to retrieve the files before replacing it. Thanx in advance

Hello Silverfox,

Have you already ran Check Disk on the hard drive to see if it may be able to repair or mark the bad sectors, and recover any corrupted files or sectors from it?

I would say using the command below in a elevated (run as administrator) command prompt. Substitute C with the drive letter of this hard drive instead though.

chkdsk C: /F /R

Hope this helps,
Shawn

If you're going to replace the drive, have a look at the freebie Easus Disk Copy EASEUS Disk Copy: Free Disk Copy, Disk Clone, Partition Copy Software. Sector by Sector for hard drive backup freeware. (you might also want to download Todo Backup while you're at it).

This will allow you to clone your disk sector by sector to the new drive, after you install it. You might want to wait to do the chkdsk run that Shawn is recommending until after you clone the disk, just in case. After that's done, run chkdsk /f on your new drive and see what it says.

Ed