October 17th, 2012, 7:22
October 17th, 2012, 11:18
October 17th, 2012, 11:40
vj_junk wrote:They have random bad sectors
vj_junk wrote:in SMART, the reallocated sectors are the same number: 16376.
vj_junk wrote:When I try to erase with secure erase, to delete odd information on the G-List
vj_junk wrote:The program always give me the information that the drive is freeze-locked.
October 17th, 2012, 12:07
Vulcan wrote:IMHO more info needed from you, in order for readers to better understand your story. Also, I assume that you do not need the data from these disks, since you tried to do a secure erase. (FYI I cannot view your video at the moment, as for a few days I'm using a 3G modem, with limited bandwidth, at a remote location - so I am using just the information you have written.)
Vulcan wrote:What is common between these 2 drives, in the way you have been using them? Same PC? Same mains power supply? Same building? etc. etc.
vj_junk wrote:They have random bad sectors
Vulcan wrote:What do you mean exactly by "random"? Do you mean that sector X is sometimes bad (unreadable), and sometimes sector X is readable (without doing any writes between tests)? Or do you mean that unreadable sectors are distributed (seemingly) randomly across the whole disk? Or something else? Where is your actual evidence?
vj_junk wrote:in SMART, the reallocated sectors are the same number: 16376.
Vulcan wrote:Please supply full SMART data, including raw values, from both drives. Do you have any older SMART data from these drives? If so, then supply that also.
vj_junk wrote:When I try to erase with secure erase, to delete odd information on the G-List
Vulcan wrote:This statement is ambiguous, but you might misunderstand what a secure erase does. More (unambiguous) explanation is needed from you, about what you think a secure erase should do.
vj_junk wrote:The program always give me the information that the drive is freeze-locked.
Vulcan wrote:This is not necessarily a fault - this is done by a BIOS deliberately to stop malicious secure erase being done by malware! You need to research the ways to bypass this, if you really want to do a secure erase - several bypass techniques exist (e.g. see the readme for HDDerase for some examples). However IMHO secure erase is unlikely to solve your real (currently undiagnosed) problem.
Vulcan wrote:Personally, I think you are trying too many unrelated commands, for no clear reason (that I can understand) and the results are confusing you - so that you guess there is a firmware fault. Based on your description and limited info, I see no evidence of a firmware fault, and in any case, you will not fix most firmware problems yourself. So please stop guessing at the cause, and do more diagnosis (if you accept the risks that you may cause more problems).
Vulcan wrote:Please read this, to explain more about repairing firmware-related problems:
diy-what-the-big-deal-t12671.html
October 17th, 2012, 12:32
October 17th, 2012, 12:51
vj_junk wrote:Vulcan wrote:What is common between these 2 drives, in the way you have been using them? Same PC? Same mains power supply? Same building? etc. etc.
No. It´s not from a PC. It´s from Laptops. One is from a Dell Latitude D-520 (shown on video, 640Gb), and another from a Lenovo Y-430.
vj_junk wrote:vj_junk wrote:When I try to erase with secure erase, to delete odd information on the G-ListVulcan wrote:This statement is ambiguous, but you might misunderstand what a secure erase does. More (unambiguous) explanation is needed from you, about what you think a secure erase should do.
These SATA drives have a feature called Secure Erase, that erase all data in HDD. And these two have the Enhanced Secure Erase, that erase G-List (that contais the Sectors Previously Rellocated)
vj_junk wrote:That´s a pertinent problem to 2 different drives, do you unnerstand?
vj_junk wrote:Like I said before, it´s like the HDD have activated the read-only feature to the firmware.
October 17th, 2012, 14:02
October 17th, 2012, 20:08
vj_junk wrote:But give a chance to look at the video I´ve posted. Thanks.
vj_junk wrote:i´ve posted exactly u asked by quotes.
October 17th, 2012, 22:55
October 18th, 2012, 3:47
October 18th, 2012, 7:20
BGman wrote:Both your drives have their G-list full. That's why the number of reallocated sectors is the same
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