Hard drive Bad sector from Windows and Adobe Photoshop #1

One day, I worked on Adobe Photoshop CS in Windows XP from day to night. I was doing some pictures retouching. The computer became slows and finally stop working. I cannot do anything even calls up the task manager or Dr. Watson o fix the programs.

Desperately, I press the power button to force the system to shut down.

After rebooting the computer, I found that my computer cannot start windows. It only flash the blue screen which is so fast and I cannot even see the error message and the computer restarts by itself.

Firstly, I though Windows was error due to the incorrect shut down method. So, I put the Windows XP cd and try to repair windows. Windows XP CD shows up the list of hard drive but it can only found D:\ and E:\ but cannot find my C:\. I removed the Windows XP CD and start to think what happened to my hard drive

I grab my bootable CD which contains some portable OS and put it in my cd drive. I tried portable windows XP, portable windows 98 and some DOS File manager programs. Unfortunately, none of them can access C:\ on my hard drive. This time I though this error can caused by Hard drive bad sector.

I find the others boot cd and found one that contains the program HDD Regenerator 1.51. I never used this program before but it sounds like this program can resurrect my hard drive. The program is very complicate and hard to use. I boot the computer with this cd and the program will ask which sector you want to start the scanning. I entered “0” and press enter. The program starts. It scan every megabytes on the hard drive. No matter how many partition it is this program can see only the physical hard drive.

1.Boot Screen

2. Select Program

3. Program found one hard drive

4. Start scanning from sector 0

5. Scanning completed

6. Hard drive can use again

The program screen shows the megabytes that has been scanned number of bad sectors and number of recovered bad sectors.
It took one night to scan. In the morning I found the complete screen and press few buttons to exit the program and try restart again.
The Windows starts completely and I can continue my work on the next day but there is one thing I didn’t realize on that time is how the bad sectors occur on my hard drive. I finally found the answer on couple days later that it caused by Adobe Photoshop.

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