Bad Sectors: Problems with chkdsk/f

I have lots of bad sectors and not even able to do a restore to a previous
restore point. I tried chkdsk/f but on restart it doesn't do the chkdsk. I
have a Vista repair disk and I ran the repair but I still have the sector
errors that prevent going to the previous restore point. What should I do?

Buy a new hard drive. If chkdsk can't fix it, it's likely that nothing will.
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"David F" <dfumento@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have not had todo this, but you can boot from the install cd and run a
command prompt.

I think its called the Recovery command prompt.

This should allow you to /f you OS disk as it will not have any locks.

see

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial147.html

for info on how to boot to this command prompt.

Steve

"David F" <dfumento@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've had good luck with a program called restorer2000. It has a demo program
that will allow you to recover small files. The full version costs $50.00.
The best way to recover data from the bad disk is to in stall your OS on a
new disk and then mount the bad disk as the second drive and run
restorer2000. when run it gives you a windows expolrer type display of the
disk. then you can click on files and try to copy them. It will tell you if
it can copy the file or that it may have trouble copying the disk, or that it
can't copy the disk.
Good luck

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