A bit of help with WD2500AAJS

[ceckin]

Guys i come accross a strange hdd, its WD that have a lot bad sectors and results in I/O errors. Does anyone have a suggestion how can i skip this sectors and use the good ones instead? I'm perfectly aware that this drive cannot be saved with software i just want to try and use it for insensitive data (as caching) for as long as i can.

This is the SMART report:

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ID   Attribute Description   Threshold   Value   Worst   Data   Status
01   Raw Read Error Rate   51   198   198   37847   OK: Value is normal
03   Spinup Time   21   194   178   1291   OK: Value is normal
04   Start/Stop Count   0   100   100   185   OK: Always passes
05   Reallocated Sector Count   140   104   104   761   Pre-Failure: Imminent loss of data is being predicted
07   Seek Error Rate   0   193   190   305   OK: Always passes
09   Power-On Time Count   0   80   80   14887   OK: Always passes
0A   Spinup Retry Count   0   100   100   0   OK: Always passes
0B   Calibration Retry Count   0   100   100   0   OK: Always passes
0C   Power Cycle Count   0   97   97   3864   OK: Always passes
C0   Power-Off Retract Count   0   197   197   2741   OK: Always passes
C1   Load/Unload Cycle Count   0   199   199   3864   OK: Always passes
C2   Temperature   0   107   87   36   OK: Always passes
C4   Reallocation Event Count   0   1   1   232   OK: Always passes
C5   Current Pending Sector Count   0   200   197   0   OK: Always passes
C6   Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count   0   200   200   40   OK: Always passes
C7   Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate   0   200   200   134   OK: Always passes
C8   Write Error Rate   0   200   200   33   OK: Always passes


[poehere]

Try MHDD to do this one with. But as you say you are not going to get so far on this one and it is not such a great idea to use it if this is the problem.

[BlackST]

Mhdd won't help that much, you need your drive to be professionally fixed. If successful, it will be like brand new.

[pcimage]

Drive is dying, but could be recertified and reusable. But not without specialist tools I'm afraid

[ceckin]

What are these tools? PC3k? Or just high-price software?

[fzabkar]

What are these tools? PC3k? Or just high-price software?

AIUI, if the drive needs to be opened, then the job wouldn't be worth doing. Instead I would expect that it would all be done from behind a keyboard. I would think that a bad head or surface would simply be disabled, and the drive recertified at a reduced capacity.

If that's the case, then there are cheap software tools that could probably do the job, eg WD HD Pro (US$80 - $100) or WDR-UDMA (US$150).

[poehere]

Mhdd won't help that much, you need your drive to be professionally fixed. If successful, it will be like brand new.

This does not mean to open the HDD. Professionally fixed = refurbished. It is done by the SA and special commands to refurbish a HDD. Normally a refurbish process on a HDD is rather cheap. I can not quote you an exact price but I know it normally is under 30 euro on this one I think. Do not take my quote as your final price. Send BlackST a PM and ask him how much it would be to do this for you. He can give you the price on this and I have read on here sometime as low as 10 to 30 euro.