Tag Archives: bad block

[v20.24] HDD Regenerator – Physically repair bad sectors of hard drives

This article along with all titles and tags are the original content of AppNee. All rights reserved. To repost or reproduce, you must add an explicit footnote along with the URL to this article!
Any manual or automated whole-website collecting/crawling behaviors are strictly prohibited.
Any resources shared on AppNee are limited to personal study and research only, any form of commercial behaviors are strictly prohibited. Otherwise, you may receive a variety of copyright complaints and have to deal with them by yourself.
Before using (especially downloading) any resources shared by AppNee, please first go to read our F.A.Q. page more or less. Otherwise, please bear all the consequences by yourself.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The types of bad sectors include logical bad sectors, physical bad sectors, and the more common read/write delays. If there are sectors to be remapped in S.M.A.R.T., you should pay attention to the health of the hard drive. When we find that we cannot enter the system, and the hard disk cannot be recognized when booting or under PE, we should use a hard disk detection tool to make a scan to see whether this problem is caused by bad sectors. Logical bad sectors on a hard disk can generally be repaired using DiskGenius, but if they are physical bad sectors, then for ordinary users, your only hope is HDD Regenerator, before you send it to a professional for repairs.

Continue reading [v20.24] HDD Regenerator – Physically repair bad sectors of hard drives

[v2.50, v3.00] MyDiskTest – Capacity expansion detector & identifier for Mobile storage devices

There are many ways to fake the displayed capacity info of any type of storage device (this is nothing new in the Chinese electronic marketplaces, where you have to have a third eye to avoid being cheated). For example, using the “subst” command to create a partition shortcut (which can be understood as a virtual partition); using “SFDISK” (hard disk partitioning tool under DOS) to modify the partition table information; using WinHex (to offset the DBR of disk to the target capacity), PC-3000 and similar tools to change disk information in the underlying hardware.

Continue reading [v2.50, v3.00] MyDiskTest – Capacity expansion detector & identifier for Mobile storage devices

If some download link is missing, and you do need it, just please send an email (along with post link and missing link) to remind us to reupload the missing file for you. And, give us some time to respond.
If there is a password for an archive, it should be "appnee.com".
Most of the reserved downloads (including the 32-bit version) can be requested to reupload via email.