How to UNDO the BADDER of the MHDD?

[pninja]

Master Dimitry; Other masters

I have a 250GB HDD that its initial sectors (about 200MB) have been made
bad by mistake using MHDD.

My question is: Is there any way to UNDO the Sector Badder of the MHDD?

I need structured data (not RAW). The Hard drive itself is not important.

Thank you

[drc]

Read long? I don't know if makebad writes to the whole sector or just to the ECC data...

[BlackST]

Don't know either but try force read of a sample sector and check ECC data and data itself. Maybe Dmitry can be more helpful, send him a PM.

[pninja]

Don't know either but try force read of a sample sector and check ECC data and data itself. Maybe Dmitry can be more helpful, send him a PM.

Hi BlackST
Thank you for the reply.

Tried "read ignoring ECC" option of PC3K. result is zero filled sectors.

[BlackST]

Ouch!! Then sector data is unavailable... You have to rebuild the directory structure from scratch, I think...