Hi guys)
It's been awhile since I badly needed some explanations, but this very situations does require some clarifications for sure. Ok, there's a subject Hitachi 160GB SATA-2 HDD with somewhat tolerable stats:
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Hitachi HDS721616PLA380 P22OABEA [160,04 GB] (312581808 512-byte sectors)
Attribute Current Worst Raw Note
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1 01 Read error rate 100 100 0
2 02 Throughput performance 100 100 0
3 03 Spin up time 130 130 12894863514
4 04 Number of spin-up times 99 99 4255
5 05 Reallocated sectors count 100 100 15
7 07 Seek error rate 100 100 0
8 08 Seek performance 100 100 0
9 09 Power-on time 99 99 12186
10 0A Spin-up retries 100 100 0
12 0C Power Cycles 99 99 4225
192 C0 Power-off retract count 97 97 4509
193 C1 Load/unload cycle count 97 97 4509
194 C2 HDA Temperature 181 181 244813856801 (33 degree)
196 C4 Reallocate event count 100 100 15
197 C5 Current pending sectors 100 100 0
198 C6 Offline scan UNC sectors 100 100 0
199 C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 200 253 4
A friend of mine told me it was working fine till recently it began copying data in "bursts" or portions, so I decided to wipe it clean via a vendor's Security Erase. Thus, it says the security is OFF and virtually ebables doing anything, yet the problem is it cannot do Secure Erase properly! E.g. Dell Vostro mobo in the IDE mode runs Victoria 4.47b under WinPE and in PIO mode it says everything is fine, so it locks the drive, takes BUSY flag, and in about an hour (very plausible) it reports eveything is done, but... All the info and partitions are still there! Another retry, a different software, a different cable, a different port--the same; a different drive erases purely as it should.
Yep, the device is rather outsdated, but
WHY it doesn't process its SE routine properly? Who knows... I'm just out of ideas for now. Actually, I'm going to try LowFormatting, however, first I would rather find out what's wrong with the patient.
TY
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