External WD 320GB shows Damaged Sectors - WHat to do?

[Riccardo]

MY External Western Digital HDD dropped once or twice or more often on the floors and has some damaged sectors.
Is there a way to restore some data from those sectors?

Another thing, is there a way to mark those sectors so they wont be used again?

[Zero Alpha]

backup and replace.

[dobrevjetser]

And do it fast; this drive will not live very long any more.

Dobre

[Riccardo]

thanks guys, did u hear of that?
http://www.dposoft.net/

is it really possible to restore damaged sectors?

I assume not?

[BlackST]

Dropped and still survived and you STILL want to use it ? It's a joke or is it the wrong forum ...

[Riccardo]

cmon, dropping it once isnt something extremely bad. but this indeed was used a lot during transport and fell, thanks to my gf haha.. i mean, ill guess ill use it as a portable media drive as long as it runs.. there isnt any data on it that i didnt already backuped...

[harddrivespecialist]

Dropped and still survived and you STILL want to use it ? It's a joke or is it the wrong forum ...

It must be....

This is extreme section now......

[BlackST]

Good night.... I really need a rest after hearing that.

[Riccardo]

@harddrivespecialist and BlackST u freaks!!! ofc u can use it even after it has been dropped for multimedia use, just as long as the videos work, once it is dead i can still buy a new one for these purpose ... i have loads of backups anyway.. i was referring to the download link above, since it sounded weird in my opinion to restore bad sectors.

no offence guys... but i guess u guys are dreaming of hard drives all night long!!!

or get a gf if that what i just wrote wont make u fall asleep!

[BlackST]

At night I do something more fun, usually, THEN sleep. Every given night, usually. That's what ST...s are made for.

In any case such drive is a time bomb, and eventually, unattended, in a remote scenario, it can be even dangerous : I remember a similar 6Y Calypso that was used added on VS despite my advice, one head crashed badly and the HGA was grinding the platter.
The VS of course in a short time isolated the drive as bad , then they noticed a "hissing" sound coming from the rack... but it was an annoying chore to remove the tray or see what was going on.... because everything was "still" working
Result: some weeks later, a bad failure of the entire system occurred because that drive overheated, PCB failed with burning because of the aluminum dust inside the HDA, power short circuit, game over.
Nothing unrepairable, but avoidable (and welcome money, for me) . And the drive originally, was "only" dropped and developed a bad area "hey, if I turn SMART off I see the drive... it can be formatted in windows... scandisk DO pass !!" .... Of course I suggested to discard it and refused to recertify it because I was sure it even won't survive the factory tests. The end.

[Riccardo]

oh well,nevermind, i know what you mean!