How Do You Fix A Bad Sector On An Unformatted Hard Drive?
A standard unformatted hard drive will have millions of sectors on it that are capable of holding information once they have been properly formatted. However, some of these sectors may be damaged due to manufacturer problems. These sectors can be repaired and recovered. However, the problem that occurs is that these sectors cannot be repaired until the disk is first formatted and given some type of operating software. Place the Windows installation disc into your CD-ROM tray and restart your computer. Press “F12” during startup to boot from the CD. Press “F8” to accept the Windows Licensing Agreement. Then you will be given the option of creating a hard drive partition. You can make many partitions of varying size if you choose or press “C” to make one partition with all available space. Install Windows onto the newly formatted hard drive. Restart the computer once it has completed. Download a sector recovery program from a software publisher’s website. Some of the most trusted program
