April 7th, 2021, 11:49
April 7th, 2021, 14:10
glhd wrote:I have a 2013 Toshiba MQ01ABD075 750GB drive with SMART values showing 624 pending sectors and 8 reallocated sectors (See image). The drive has now been unused for 3 months and contains almost all of my saved data, so it already performs a specific function as a third backup copy.
Some forum user suggested to overwrite it entirely three times with a special software to try to recover the sectors waiting to be written and then format it to exclude the damaged area.
Is it worth trying to recover it, or do I risk making it totally unusable by losing its function as a data container ?
April 7th, 2021, 16:32
rec wrote:Your posting is incomprehensible and contradictory ...
April 7th, 2021, 18:30
glhd wrote:rec wrote:Your posting is incomprehensible and contradictory ...
2) I would like to try to recover the read write functionality of the sectors marked as pending, not their actual content, because I was told in this forum that "pending without reallocated means that you can restore them, and that they are maybe logical errors", see this old post. Possibly I would also like to format the disk to exclude the damaged part on the disk surface.
I hope I have clarified.
April 9th, 2021, 4:40
rec wrote:Your pending sectors are not readible. Once they receive a write command they will be overwritten successfully (don't know) or mapped to spare sectors.
If they will be overwritten (maybe?) the pending sector count will be decreased.
If they will be remapped the pending sector count will be decreased and the "reallocated sector count" will increase.
April 9th, 2021, 15:24
April 9th, 2021, 17:34
glhd wrote:I seem to have read somewhere that Secure Erase has the ability to overwrite sectors of the disk not accessible to software and should also be faster.
April 10th, 2021, 6:02
fzabkar wrote:glhd wrote:I seem to have read somewhere that Secure Erase has the ability to overwrite sectors of the disk not accessible to software and should also be faster.
That's what an enhanced secure erase does.
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