Windows 7 - HELP, bad sectors found

My laptop have this program called RECOVERY SOLUTION, I always make backups of my entire system drive using this program. Just this morning when I started making a new Backup, it said BAD SECTORS FOUND IN YOUR HARD DRIVE. is suggests for me to replace my current HARD DRIVE. how can I fix bad sectors? what are the causes for this bad sectors to appear? Please help out...

What Causes Bad Sectors on a Hard Drive? | eHow.com

You can try to fix hard drive errors by running Check Disk.

Disk Check

You can also check the health of a hard drive by running SeaTools.

| Seagate

If too many sectors are bad your hard drive may need to be replaced because data could become corrupted.

Thanks... I will try it.

I tried Disk Check twice but still the recovery program detected bad sectors on my drive. also, I used the Seagate Seatools program. I attached the Seatools result in a txt file. with this post. There was no LONG DRIVE SELF TEST option available.

Please help out... Is there any other way to solve this?

Hi,

What sort of chkdsk did you try?

If you haven't already, try the following chkdsk /r

This will take some time - do not interrput the chkdsk process, let it finish.

Regards,
Golden

the check disk from windows. which have options for fixing system errors and scan and recovery of bad sectors. from the tools of windows.

I had a look at your Seatools log. The drive has failed the Short DST and the Long Generic, both of which can be caused by bad sectors. When Short DST fails, Seagate advises running the long test from Seatools for DOS bootable CD. It should be available for download from the seagate website. If that too fails then you need to start thinking about warranties.

As a precaution, please backup all important data right now.

okay. just need to get blank cd's then. can I have a link for that bootable cd long drive self test download? Would really appreciate it.

SeaTools for DOS | Seagate