Bootable standalone utility to format HDD?

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lid says...
You only responded partly to Mayayana's

Mayayana

How does the Acronis image get installed? Doesn't
that have a bootable utility to do the job? That
utility should take care of deleting old partitions and
putting in the image as a new partition.

/Mayayana

I have the Acronis Recovery Environment installed - it
starts at boot if you poke F11 and runs the same
standalone program as if booted from a DVD/thumb drive. It
does delete the partition and create a new one, but
getting an uncorrupted MFT isn't (can't be) part of the
deal. The restore process can procede sector-by-sector or
by rewriting each file. The former would simply recover
the corrupted MFT while, I assume, the latter would not.
In any case, I restored an older backup that I made before
I began to see issues. I did sector-by-sector restore,
assuming (guessing!) that the MFT was okay. Subsequent
checks confirmed that.

Such a bootable utility [1] probably also has the means to do (a
chkdsk and) a format, so you would not have needed to put the drive in
an external enclosure and later put it back in the original machine.

I did that so I could attach it as "just another disk" to
my laptop and run tests which I couldn't do when it was
The C drive...

I'm sure Acronis has such a bootable utility.

Their utility, however it gets started, does not have
those tools. It has some others, but not what I thought I
needed. Others here have responded with suggestions for
bootable systems that do have them.

On 26/11/2018 02:08, Jason wrote:
My Win 10 SSD C: drive suddenly reports errors that chkdsk tries but
fails to repair. It reports that the bitmap is corrupted. The disk may
have failed, but before I give up I'd like to try to format it and then
reload from an Acronis image backup. I'm sure such utilities exist. Is
there a recommended one? TIA


You need to ask a technician from India to fix this for you. They are
quite competent in doing these things. They do it all the time because
there are many people like you who can't pick up a plate without
dropping it. The education system has failed you.





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