Would doing a zero-wipe to my hard drive also wipe my bad sectors?

[POWA KILLERDeux]

As of recently, i've been experiencing alot of errors, after researching on my own, i discovered that i have bad sectors, i've tried using chkdsk /f, but that didn't fix anything. So i'm now wondering, if i were to zero-wipe my hard-drive, would it help it at all?

Thanks.

[MegaJohnny]

I'm not entirely sure. But according to the wikipedia article on bad sectors, they're caused by physical damage to the disk surface. So I don't think it would help.

[TheLolrus]

No, it wouldn't.

[Norfair12]

If your drive has bad sectors there are some tools out there that may be able repair them, but it's only applying a band-aid to a major problem. Usually with bad sectors means hard drive replacement.

[POWA KILLERDeux]

Alright so since the answer to that is probably no, around how much does a new 1TB hardrive cost in CAD currency?

[Zombini]

I have a seagate barracuda 1tb drive, i got it for under $60 USD, USD is pretty close to CAD

[hakusaro]

[QUOTE=Justice;27982418][url]http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185[/url]

There is no other option.[/QUOTE]

I have that, works like a charm and does the job well. Quiet and cool, but decently fast.

[Chipset]

[QUOTE=Justice;27982418][url]http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185[/url]

There is no other option.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=nicatronTg;27984953]I have that, works like a charm and does the job well. Quiet and cool, but decently fast.[/QUOTE]

What he said.

[moesislack]

Do a complete reformat it'll see the bad sectors and not include them in the partition table.

[aVoN]

It doesn't help. How much bad sectors do you have (Sector Relocation Count in SMART). If the number is low, ignore it. Your drive has generally a spare-area to replace a few thousand bad sectors which it can't write to anymore. Once they are relocated, a "zero-wipe" won't affect the bad sectors anymore because they are now unused. Instead the one of the spare-area are used.

[POWA KILLERDeux]

[QUOTE=aVoN;27992482]It doesn't help. How much bad sectors do you have (Sector Relocation Count in SMART). If the number is low, ignore it. Your drive has generally a spare-area to replace a few thousand bad sectors which it can't write to anymore. Once they are relocated, a "zero-wipe" won't affect the bad sectors anymore because they are now unused. Instead the one of the spare-area are used.[/QUOTE]

Well, i have a pretty much high frequency of data corruption and my MFT is broken due to it.