One day you might hear strange sound from your hard drive. The computer
hangs when reading/writing files, cloning partitions,
formatting/checking the disk. Windows finally fails to start up after
bitter attempts of reading data from HDD. The disk volumes disappear in
the Explorer. Well, all these are probably caused by bad sectors on your
HDD. To fix this problem, you can isolate the bad sectors so that OS
will ignore/bypass them. There are two methods for bad sector isolation.
The first method is partitioning the disk to exclude bad sectors from
any created partition. But have you been bored with partitioning bad
disks with bad sectors? Did you lose your patience in the past when
scanning the disk, writing down the positions of bad sectors, and
calculating the start/stop position of partitions in order to block/hide
bad sectors? Now you need not do that manually. PBD(Partition Bad Disk)
can do all these annoying things for you by detecting/isolating bad
sectors and creating healthy partitions. You can also adjust the
properties of partitions such as the size, the start/stop postions at
will, just like an ordinary partition software. The second bad block
isolation method is marking bad clusters in the file system. You can now
use PBD Super Format option to format the partition and hide bad
clusters smoothly.
Features:
High-efficient and error-robust disk scan algorithm. You won't wait
for a whole night just to see your computer hangs or makes little
progress in scanning the disk.
You can stop the scan at anytime and continue it later. PBD will
save the scan results automatically so that you need not scan the disk
again when you want to adjust the partitions next time.
Almost no limitation about the number of created partitions/logical disks.
Visualized disk diagram makes it easy to use. Just click the blocks
in the diagram and assigned them to partitions. You can adjust the size
of, the start/stop positions of, the type of partitions and
split/combine partitions at will.
Provided advanced partitioning strategies. Choose a strategy, and PBD does the rest.
Super Format option allows you to mark bad clusters at file system
level. This is useful if you want to create a large partition thus have
to include some bad sectors in it(the bad sectors will be mapped out
after formatting). It is much faster than traditional format when
dealing with massive bad sectors, and it never hangs. Currently only FAT
is supported. You can convert the formatted partition from FAT to NTFS
using the command: convert X:/fs:ntfs
Even your disk has no bad sectors, you can also use PBD as an ordinary easy-to-use partition software.
About bad sector:
Bad sectors(or bad blocks, bad clusters) are the areas on the disk that
can not be read or written. Bad sectors are classified into two
categories: logical bad sector and phyical bad sector. Logical bad
sector can be repaired by software while phyical bad sector is hard to
fix. Bad sectors should be blocked out, otherwise you will meet problem
reading or writing files, and if bad sectors are often read and written,
they may propagate to originally healthy part of disk. Use Partition
Bad Disk to isolate/hide bad sectors so that they can not be used to
store files.