{"id":286,"date":"2011-12-01T10:39:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T08:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.atola.com\/bad-sector-repair-in-atola-bandura\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T16:41:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:41:23","slug":"bad-sector-repair-in-atola-bandura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/bad-sector-repair-in-atola-bandura\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Sector Repair in Atola Bandura"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bandura_frame\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HDD Bad Sector Repair in progress\" alt=\"HDD Bad Sector Repair in progress\" src=\"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/repair-in-progress_thumb1_thumb.png\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Today we would like to present another new function in <a href=\"https:\/\/bandura.atola.com\/update.html\">Atola Bandura 1.1.5 release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bandura automatically repairs \u201csoft\u201d bad sectors (sectors with damaged ECC fields) using a fast and efficient remapping process. When the <em>Bad Sector Repair<\/em> function is selected, the Bandura reads the source disk block-by-block. If a read error occurs, it checks every sector in that block and remaps all bad sectors. All remapped sectors are displayed on the LCD panel in real time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results screen of repairing bad sectors <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"bandura_frame\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Disk bad sector repair results\" alt=\"Disk bad sector repair results\" src=\"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/repair-results_thumb1_thumb.png\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Bad Sector Repair log<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"bandura_frame\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bad Sector Repair log\" alt=\"Bad Sector Repair log\" src=\"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/repair-log_thumb1_thumb.png\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Timeout settings for Repair <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"bandura_frame\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Timeout settings for Repair \" alt=\"Timeout settings for Repair \" src=\"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/repair-settings_thumb1_thumb.png\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>Please note: all product features are listed in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bandura.atola.com\/specifications.html\"><em>Bandura specifications<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we would like to present another new function in Atola Bandura 1.1.5 release. 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