How to get rid of soft bad sectors obtained from cloning a faulty disc?have you run CHKDSK command to repair soft bad sectors? here are steps:

1. Press the Windows key and type cmd.
2. Right-click "Command Prompt" and choose "Run as administrator".
3. Type chkdsk E: /f /r /x and hit Enter. (Replace E with the drive letter of your hard drive.) Quote from: OliverYY on April 02, 2020, 02:13:55 AM

have you run CHKDSK command to repair soft bad sectors? here are steps:

1. Press the Windows key and type cmd.
2. Right-click "Command Prompt" and choose "Run as administrator".
3. Type chkdsk E: /f /r /x and hit Enter. (Replace E with the drive letter of your hard drive.)

then that drive is completely failing and you need to back it up. althought there are programs claim to "fix" bad sectors without data loss, but in my experience, they never have.

I would advise you to recover the data from the bad sector first first and you can use data recovery software like iBoysoft Data Recovery to recover your data: https://iboysoft.com/data-recovery/free-data-recovery.html. once you will get the whole data recovered, it's time to reformat the drive for usable again.

but formatting can only fix bad sectors that aren't physical, generally related to a software issue that leads the sector to be marked bad. if you fail to format your drive, then the issue results from physical corruption. Physically damaged bad sectors of the hard drive can not be repaired, prepare for replacement. if it's still under warranty, who owns it doesn't matter. i had a 1 TB Seagate drive with some bad sectors, I sent it to Seagate and they shipped me out a brand new drive.

good luck！

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You cannot "get rid" of bad sectors. Running either chkdsk /r or the repair function of a reliable hd utility will move the data from those bad sectors to good sectors and mark the bad sectors as unusable. If there are a LOT of bad sectors you should replace the drive.
Also, I deleted your duplicate post. Only one thread per topic please.

NTFS only: Clears the list of bad clusters on the volume and rescans all allocated and free clusters for errors. /b includes the functionality of /r. Use this parameter after imaging a volume to a new hard disk drive.

use the /b option on chkdsk. This will re-evaluate whether the sectors marked as bad in the file system are indeed bad. It's actually designed for this particular scenario:

From here.

use the /b option on chkdsk. This will re-evaluate whether the sectors marked as bad in the file system are indeed bad. It's actually designed for this particular scenario:

From here.