Hard drive error messages like Error sector not found points out that your hard drive has got bad sectors. When a specific sector of your hard drive becomes unresponsive to the operating system, your OS warns you about the error by flashing the Error sector not found message alerts. This article outlines how to troubleshoot the error on a Windows 8 PC.
If you are getting these kinds of warning alerts, then you can be suspicious that a particular section of your systems hard drive disk has got damaged. Owing to the damage, that particular sector of the drive is not saving and storing data. Thus, the computer’s OS is not being able to access the information saved in that particular section. The OS warns you about the defect by flashing hard drive sector error messages.
It is not necessary that you will surely get these hard drive error messages. Sometimes you may not get the messages and yet your computer might be suffering from bad sectors. You can try identifying the hard disk drive bad sectors by checking the noise quality of the system. If it has started making grinding noises, then it can be a possible symptom of bad sectors.
It is not good to use a computer without mending the bad sectors on the hard drive. Bad sectors can cause a complete hard drive failure or system crash. Thus, you mustn’t ignore bad sectors.
The method of repairing bad sectors is separate in different versions of Windows. This article outlines how to troubleshoot hard drive errors by repairing the bad sectors in Windows 8.
The following steps will help you in repairing the bad sectors on your Windows 8 laptop or PC
Launch the Windows 8 desktop screen
Next, bring the mouse-pointer to the upper-right corner of the screen
That will launch the Charms menu
Now, bring the mouse cursor over the Search option and click on it
Users with Windows 8 touch interface need to swipe in from the right edge of the screen to open the Charms menu
Now, tap on the Search option
On the Search field option, type This PC and then click or tap it
Now, choose the hard disk drive that needs the repairing
Then, right-click on it
Next, click on Properties’
Next, select the Tools tab
Now, navigate to the Error checking section
Here, click or touch the Check option
Provide your admin password
Now, the computer will run a checking scan in order to check for bad sectors on your hard disk drive
Review the scan results
If youve any listed bad sectors on your hard disk drive then tap or click the Scan drive option
If there are no errors listed, still you can click on ‘Scan drive’ to repair your drive
After you click or tap on Scan drive, choose a time for the repairing of the file system. Here, you are fixing a schedule for the repair process.
Click Schedule on next restart option, in the Repair file system errors dialog box
If you wish to repair your drive instantly, then click or tap on Restart.’
Conclusion
The repair method will take some time. You must allow Windows to run the full scan for the right detection. Avoid causing any interruption during the bad sector scan. Better, you don’t use the computer while the repairing is in process.
Once the process gets completed, if you wish, you can reboot your computer. After this troubleshooting, most likely the grinding noise will disappear. That indicates the bad sectors have got replaced by good sectors. Now, you can continue using your system, and you will see that your operating system is no more flashing the Error sector not found error messages.
