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Help with my HDD bad sectors

May 5th, 2009, 17:07

My SATA seagate HDD have some bad sectors, it have 67 before but with HDD Regenerator it repair all founded bad sectors

now HDD Sentinel software say that:

Code:
There are 2 bad sectors on the disk surface. The contents of these sectors were moved to the spare area.
The drive found 30 bad sectors during its self test.
There are 30 weak sectors found on the disk surface. They may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk.
The hard disk is operating in PIO mode which reduces performance. It is recommended to check and replace data cable or modify the configuration.
It is recommended to examine the log of the disk regularly. All new problems found will be logged there.

It is recommended to continuously monitor the hard disk status.


what can or what i should make??

thanks

Re: Help with my HDD bad sectors

May 5th, 2009, 17:35

... or continue using HDD regenerator : it will kill your drive so you'll change it forcefully :D

Re: Help with my HDD bad sectors

May 5th, 2009, 17:36

The problem with what you just did is that those sectors MAY have been readable, and there MAY have been data on those sectors. Although 60 sectors isn't something cry about.

"repairing" a bad sector does not mean its actually repaired. The drive just removes those sectors from use.


Back up you data, and get a new drive.

Re: Help with my HDD bad sectors

May 5th, 2009, 19:02

Russwinters wrote:The problem with what you just did is that those sectors MAY have been readable, and there MAY have been data on those sectors. Although 60 sectors isn't something cry about.

"repairing" a bad sector does not mean its actually repaired. The drive just removes those sectors from use.


Back up you data, and get a new drive.


HDD Sentinel shows before: Health: 24% now show 56%
Power On Time: 334 Days and 10 Hours
Estimated life time: 467 Days

my hdd have 400GB

i already copy all data to other HDD but i will need to copy back to same HDD
so there are no programs to fix all hdd??? kill or format is not a problem

A good and big hdd is not cheap here
I want a WD SATA II 32MB at least with 1TB

WESTERN DIGITAL 1TB SATA II 32MB BLACK (109,20 €)

I dont know but i dont like SEAGATE since my old ST 80GB was gone with same problem :( (long time ago)
Also a external hdd from a friend (1 TB Seagate NEW) and already have 2 bad sectors at disk surface


Now see my oldest 200GB WD IDE running at perfect health:

Health and Performance: 100%
Power On Time: 958 Days and 2 Hours
Estimated life time: more than 866Days

Anyone know good websites to pay in Dollar ($) and shipping to portugal wit low cost/tax?

Thanks

Re: Help with my HDD bad sectors

May 5th, 2009, 19:47

Spildit wrote:Olá !!!
A melhor opção é mesmo comprares um disco novo. Por muito que tentes reparar/re-certificar esse disco os "bad sectors" só vão aumentar cada vez mais até ao ponto do disco ficar completamente inacessível e dos dados se perderem.
Não voltes a copiar os dados para esse disco que está quase a avariar-se para sempre, simplesmente compra um disco novo, podes sempre utilizar o velho para ficheiros temporários do emule ou assim.


i understand what you say but is better talk english to all others understand too.
In that moment i cant buy a new, but my files in that HDD are importante :(

what HDD recomends?
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