Bad Sectors

Does anyone here have experience with 'repairing' or in any way  ridding themselves of bad sectors on their drive?

I pirated HDD Regenerator and it WORKS, but it will take weeks before it's done because several thousand sectors are damaged and it does like 1MB/hour. SpinRite doesn't work at all. Is there an alternative method or program?

I could be wrong, but doesn't the system program CHKDSK do that by itself?
Type in "chkdsk /?" into your command line and look for what you search. Most probably something like "chkdsk [DRIVE LETTER]: /F /R", but decide that for yourself by reading the mentioned manual of chkdsk.

why isn't "chkdsk" spelled "chkdisk"?  i mean, the original dos had room for eight letters, so it wasn't necessary to shorten "disk" to "dsk"?  WTF?

>>3
one of the many mysteries of life?

>>3
consistency, if you're going to shorten one word you shorten the rest
do any of these sound normal to you?
united s a
united states a
u states america
etc

Shortened command line terms are chosen with QWERTY in mind as well, not to mention the human mind, associations, pronunciation, shit like that.

It's pronounced as it's abbreviated, and it doesn't move to the top column of your kb, nor does it make you race back and forth between sides. It's perfect, in other words.

Anyway, no chkdsk can't help me.

>>1
If "several thousand sectors" on your hard drive are marked bad, you need a new hard drive.

>>1 I have to agree with >>7
If you have that many bad sectors, chances are that more are going to appear (there's probably a flake or two of the HD surface floating around in there getting in between the heads and the disc surface). 

>>8
Its been running fine like this for long enough, though.

But if the damage is as bad as you say, I think I'll leave it be.

But the HDD Regenerator did work. The damage spread to the first 20GB (the part I've been using for many a month) after I messed around with the latter 80GB and it fixed it so that I can continue using it.

But I guess I'll leave it alone. It works as for now as an OS drive, and nothing important is on it.

>>6
Yeah, I see, because MS-DOS people have had to run CHKDSK so much that not making one move one's little finger reach the 'I' saves much time.

>>10
It's no different for any Unix app in terms of naming, but good joke. Doesn't Unix check the filesystem at startup, though..?

>>7
>>8

Listen to these guys, a hard drive with bad sectors will ALWAYS get worse.