Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Will I lose data running ChkDsk?

My computer blue screeened recently so I brought it to the school repair store. The guy ran a hard drive scan and at the very last step…

… A message popped up saying "Bad sectors" were detected. I can run the Lenovo Bad Sector Repair tool… But it could risk losing data.

I've also heard to run chkdsk from cmd> Apparently it will attempt to locate and repair bad sectors if possible. Is this the same thing as the repair tool? Or is it different.

Is chkdsk a way to try to repair bad sectors without losing data… Or does it also risk losing data.

thanks.

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