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I’m checking my disk with chkdsk or scandisk and they are reporting bads, but MHDD does not see any bad block. What happened?

April 26, 2017bad bads block checking chkdsk disk I’m mhdd Scandisk

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I’m checking my disk with chkdsk or scandisk and they are reporting bads, but MHDD does not see any bad block. What happened?

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Your drive had some bad blocks in the past and they were removed by MHDD or other software (or sometimes by the hard drive itself). 1. Use Disk Edit to remove bads from your file system 2. Try Partition Magic’s “Bad sectors recheck” 3. Repartition your hard drive.