I just went crazy trying to repair an error on my hard drive. I was doing a Ghost backup on a a partition on a NTFS drive, and encountered a disk error.
"Error Number: (29004) Message: Read sector failure, result = 1, drive = 0, sectors 102739350 to 102739414"
No problem, I scheduled CHKDSK.EXE for the next startup and restarted. I got a couple of error messages and the "repairs" were made. I then ran the Western Digital utilities that came with the drive and found no problems but when I restarted Ghost the problem was back. I did the same thing with CHKDSK.EXE and the Western Digital utilities and had "no errors".
I then ran MSBackup on the drive and received in part this in the error log ..
WARNING: Portions of "\Belkin Bulldog Plus\2004\1.DAT" cannot be read. The backed up data is corrupt or incomplete. This file will not restore correctly. WARNING: Portions of "\Street Atlas USA 9.0\NodeIDs.dat" cannot be read. The backed up data is corrupt or incomplete. This file will not restore correctly.
For a third time I ran the Western Digital utilities, (not CHKDSK.EXE this time), and finally it found and repaired the errors and I ran a good Ghost backup.
THE QUESTION!
Does anyone know of a good disk utility that find and fix basic disk problem to use in addition to, or in place of, CHKDSK.EXE? Don't say Norton Utilities. Norton's Disk Doctor is just a front end for CHKDSK.EXE.
