Hard Drive Bad Sector marking utility

Posted by Kevin Boyd on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Kevin Boyd
Published on 2009-09-27T06:46:47Z Indexed on 2012/12/03 11:31 UTC
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I already have Windows XP, During installing Ubuntu(dual boot) the disk drive just stuck up at one place and doesn't seem to move ahead..
Is there a disk bad sector mark utility that just marks these sectors so that the disk doesn't seek them later.
I tried running Seagate Seatools on the drive but both the short test and long test fail even before they start even chkdsk /f/r doesn't seem to work as the system locks up at stage four.

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