Hard disk with bad clusters

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Published on 2010-03-22T14:55:07Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 15:01 UTC
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I have been trying to backup some files up to DVD recently, and the burn process failed saying the CRC check failed for certain files. I then tried to browse to these files in Windows explorer and my whole machine locks up and I have to reboot.

I ran check disk without the '/F /R' arguments and it told me I had bad sectors. So I re-ran it with the arguments and check disk fails during the 'Chkdsk is verifying usn journal' stage with this error:

Insufficient disk space to fix the usn journal $j data stream

The hard disk is a 300GB Partition on a 400GB Disk, and there is 160GBs of free space on the partition. My os (Windows 7) is installed on the other partition and is running fine.

Any idea how I fix this? or repair it enough to copy my files off it?

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