Hi.
Some months ago i bought a refubished Toshiba x205 for a great price ( at least here ) and now both of my MK1237GSX HDD are failing ( guess what was reconditioned in it
)
1st HDD (Vista on it ) had about 5 bad sectors that BSOD/freezed the OS but i remapped them and everything seamed ok, then 1 weak ago out of the blue vista warned me about 2nd drive failing.
I checked S.M.A.R.T. status and it fails
Reallocation Sector Count and warns about
Reallocation Event Count on 2nd HDD. 1st HDD warns about
Reallocation Sector Count,
Reallocation Event Count,
Current Pending Sector Count.
I checked with the store and 2nd HDD is good for warranty, 1st isn't, but because i have to ship the laptop for 30 days to service and will only fix 2nd disk ( probably by moving G-list into P-list and leaving me with the same crapy disk or swapping in another refub) and because a previous Toshiba ( a 40G GAS if i remember right from couple years ago ) leaved a ugly mark on the wall after one morning when it trashed all my work by being detected as TO@#%@^!40G@#@%@!% and not working anymore I decided to ordered a 320 WD Scorpio Black
and not ship the laptop to warranty.
So i plan to put the 2 HDDs on external racks and use them as backup and/or for storing some media, but before that i want to mark slow sectors which take more than 50ms to read as bad so there will be ( i hope ) less problems with the data.
MHDD or victoria don't work for me as i don't have a option to disable AHCI in the bios, so i want to use HDDScan to do 3 scans, write a small application that will read the reports and filter LBA that are not in all 3 files ( microcontroller may do auto offline data collection, compensate for temperature increase because of reading all hdd, etc while reading some sectors ) and feed the remaining slow sectors to a existing tool to mark them as bad so will not be used anymore.
Can anyone tell me a tool ( command line preferably ) that can mark a sector as bad in Windows ?
What is the difference between a UNC sector and a bad sector.
What is a UNC sector ?.
As far as i know bad sectors are held on the partition data structure ( so the tool has to know how to work with FAT32 and/or NTFS ) and a reformat clears them and they need to be marked again, am i right ? how about UNC sectors ?
P.S. hope i didn't killed anyone with my long boring text
and thanks for taking the time to listen (read) to my problem and help if you can