When sectors on a hard drive go bad, the information stored in those sectors is at risk. Bad sectors are areas where the magnetic recording on the hard drive has become distorted. Although some recovery of bad sectors is possible, such errors are a warning sign that the drive may soon develop other problems or fail completely. Transferring the files to a new drive helps protect your important data. chkdsk c: /f /x /r You need to run the “chkdsk” program once for every logical drive on the physical hard drive. For most PC users, this is simply the “c:” drive, but if you have other letters assigned to the drive, they should all receive the same treatment. Although chkdsk does an excellent job of repairing bad sectors, it may not be able to fix every sector in badly corrupted drive. xcopy source destination /e /v /c “Source” refers to the directory or drive letter from which you are copying files, “destination” is the destination directory or drive, and “/e /v /c” are switches that instruct xcopy to create new directories as needed in the destination, verify the files after they’ve been copied, and continue copying even when the program encounters errors. Note that although xcopy will copy files, you cannot use it to clone the Windows operating system or installed programs. Use xcopy only to transfer your documents, media and other data files. Writer Bio
