On 17 May 2007 07:13:34 -0700, Dan Rumney
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Does anyone know of any tools that can convert an LBA to the File
>sitting on (or across) that LBA?
>
>We have an Exchange server and some of its drives have bad sectors
>that we want to rewrite to, but we don't want to restore the whole box
>if we can avoid it.

I'm not aware of any tools that can do what you are suggesting but if
you are trying to locate the files containing the bad sectors you
could locate them by simply copying all of the files on the drive to
nul and then wait for the read errors to occur, noting the files that
produce the read errors. Something as simple as running this from the
command line can be used:

for /r %a in (*.*) do copy "%a" nul

If you use this in a batch file you would need to use %%a instead of
%a.

John Hensley
www.resqware.com