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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
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WD7500BPVT Problems

September 25th, 2020, 3:32

I'm trying to use a WD7500BPVT in my Linux laptop but gparted and dd give i/o errors. Strange thing is that the SMART tests are fine with no errors. Is there a utility I can try to look a little deeper into the problem?
Thanks.

Re: WD7500BPVT Problems

October 1st, 2020, 2:02

I'd start with MHDD and/or Victoria to see whats going on, as a start.

Re: WD7500BPVT Problems

October 1st, 2020, 2:23

Thanks for the reply, useful info for the future. After trying the disk in a Windows PC and getting no response from the OS I decided that the disk was at best going to be unreliable. It had sensitive data on, so I had to destroy it.
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