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If you discover that Windows 7 laptop hard drive has one or more bad sectors when you run Check Disk (chkdsk /f /r) which is perpetually freezing at stage 5 of 5 when about 45% complete, each and every time that you try.
 * Win 7 How to repair Bad Sectors reported by Chkdsk on Laptop**

Stage 5 is the scanning of the drives free space.Using Windows 7 Disk Management ‘Shrink’ and ‘Expand’ you will be able to narrow down the location of the bad sector and created a temporary 40GB partition named ‘Test’ which included that bad sector.

Then run a zero fill operation on the 40GB ‘Test’ partition which may sometimes eliminate ‘soft’ sector errors.

If it does not, in essence it means the bad sector is a ‘hard’ sector error. It should be noted that a hard sector error may over time result in additional sector errors indicating your drive is failing and should be replaced.