Recommend a HDD repair utility

[2ninup]

Hi All,
Can anyone recommend a good hdd diagnostic and most importantly repair utility to recover bad sectors. Free would be great but needs to be under $30 or whatever you can suggest.
TIA
Michael

 

[unksol]

You don't repair bad sectors. You back up your data and get a new drive. Chkdsk works fine

 

[geofelt]

Your hard drive vendor will have a free proprietary utility. For WD it is data lifeguard.
Sectors that are hard to read can be reallocated to spare sectors.

 

[2ninup]

You don't repair bad sectors. You back up your data and get a new drive. Chkdsk works fine

Thanks. What I meant was a utility that can relocate bad sectors, isn't that possible? I'm hoping someone can just recommend a good utility, that's all I'm looking for. Thanks for your help.

 

[2ninup]

Your hard drive vendor will have a free proprietary utility. For WD it is data lifeguard.
Sectors that are hard to read can be reallocated to spare sectors.

Thanks, I tried Seatools for my Seagate drives but strangely they don't detect anything wrong, but the S.M.A.R.T. says it's got 5% life left using Acronis disk monitor. Chkdsk stops at 10% so I know there is something defiitely wrong with it. I' already got a new drive and restored my latest backup but would like to fix the old one for emergency or swapping data around etc, if that's possible.