After using the hard disk for a long time, users may find there are different kinds of hard disk problems. Type Event Viewer and press Enter: If Windows Search does not find Event Viewer by name, press the combination of the button with Windows logo on keyboard and R, and run the command evenvwr. If there is a bad sector, any data that may have been accessible before running “Repair Disk” will likely become inaccessible once the bad sector is re-allocated. You may also be able to use a tool like Piriform’s Recuva, which promises “recovery from damaged disks”. However, reformatting a hard drive will erase important data saved on it.

In the Standard tab that opens, we can see the list of all drives connected to this computer, and information on. And the disk bad sector is the most common issue. If ALL of the IDs are still at zero (0), ensure you are troubleshooting the correct drive and if you are, proceed to step 4 because the hard drive does not indicate a hardware failure at this point. If cloning is successful, you may still have a faulty backup with bad sector-related errors, in which case replacing the damaged storage device is highly recommended. Select the external hard drive you want to fix, choose Disk > Verify Or Repair Bad Sectors. As you said “Bad sectors are basically sections of the hard disk that is inaccessible by the drive due to corruption or physical damage (not repairable via software) of the disk, they are possibly caused when the hard disk was dropped during operation. If you could not find the data from the hard drive with bad sectors, you can click on 'All-Around Recovery' to have a deeper scanning.

More Information: - Seagate ST500DM002 of 500GB can't read sector '0'.To run ‘chkdsk’ from Windows RecoveryEnvironment.Step 2: In the popup window, click Start Now button to check hard drive for errors Windows 10 immediately. On the first screen that you see when your computer boots up, you will find instructions to press a specific key – which, in most cases, is Delete, F1 or F2 – to enter your computer’s BIOS / Setup. On a hard disk, the data is stored on a circular path called a track.Failed to read from sector 0 of hard disk.

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