Hi, I have a problem with my HDD, It is working still, however it is showing that it has 36280 reallocated sectors and 29256 which is strange because it adds up to 65536, no matter what I do i cannot get the drive to increase or lower the numbers i believe it may be some sort of firmware glitch or bug. I believe this because scanning the drive does not show any bad sectors at all and writing zeros to the drive does not decrease the pending sectors
The drive is also slow, (3 days to do a full scan) but it works in bursts it is hard to explain so i have attached a screenshot of the scan in victoria.
any help will be greatly appreciated, I do not care about the data on the drive
Things I have tried already:
Enhanced Secure Erase via parted magic (took 2 mins due to it being an SED model drive)
Interfacing over serial gives me a garbled output, i think due to the drives being 1.8V (grenada family)
Different USB caddies and sata ports on different chipsets (old Nforce 6 Ultra, Intel Z68 and Intel Z170)
cleaning the contacts on the pcb that connects to the heads and motor