Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
December 10th, 2014, 14:28
Hello.
I got a used notebook on a good deal, and in this computer there is this 2,5" hdd, the Western Digital wd5000bpvt-00hxzt1, 500 GiB Caviar Blue.
The disk is kind of faulty on some sectors, so I tried to fix/regenerate it with HDDRegenerator (on a bootable usb) but when it have to read the bad sectors (starting at sector 327747000, circa 160032 MiB) it reports me this flashing writing: "1 - DRIVE IS NOT READY" for some sector, then it stops reading/try-to-fix and shows me a screen that tells me that the hard drive is not ready and to switch off then on the computer, and if the sata controller is set to ahci to change it to compatible ide mode, things that I tried already, to no avail. It says also that if its externally connected, to connect internally, but the drive is obviously already inside.
What can I try also to fix this issue? It doesn't have any important data, so I would listen to many suggestions.
Thank in advance.
December 10th, 2014, 19:25
Errata corrige, it wasn't a Caviar Blue but a Scorpio Blue.
Anyway here's the S.M.A.R.T. from hdsentinel:
1,Raw Read Error Rate,51,193,192,OK,000000004065,0,Enabled
3,Spin Up Time,21,201,181,OK,0000000003B6,0,Enabled
4,Start/Stop Count,0,97,97,OK (Always passing),000000000C72,0,Enabled
5,Reallocated Sectors Count,140,198,198,OK,000000000012,0,Enabled
7,Seek Error Rate,0,200,200,OK (Always passing),000000000000,0,Enabled
9,Power On Time Count,0,93,93,OK (Always passing),0000000014EF,0,Enabled
10,Spin Retry Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),000000000000,0,Enabled
11,Drive Calibration Retry Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),000000000000,0,Enabled
12,Drive Power Cycle Count,0,97,97,OK (Always passing),000000000BBF,0,Enabled
192,Power off Retract Cycle Count,0,199,199,OK (Always passing),000000000321,0,Enabled
193,Load/Unload Cycle Count,0,187,187,OK (Always passing),000000009A6F,0,Enabled
194,Disk Temperature,0,116,79,OK (Always passing),00000000001F,0,Enabled
196,Reallocation Event Count,0,191,191,OK (Always passing),000000000009,0,Enabled
197,Current Pending Sector Count,0,200,1,OK (Always passing),00000000003E,0,Enabled
198,Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count,0,100,253,OK (Always passing),000000000000,0,Enabled
199,Ultra ATA CRC Error Count,0,200,200,OK (Always passing),000000000004,0,Enabled
200,Write Error Rate,0,100,253,OK (Always passing),000000000000,0,Enabled