Western Digital HD error(s)

Hi,
I'm using this SW for several years, and it's worked perfectly. Until now.. Buyed 4 HDs for RAID10, 4 mounths ago. For some reason my HD stoped working, don't know why. Tryed format it and get this:

...over all disc. Windows can not format it too. Is this thing's dead?
Can you recommend something to try?

These are bad sectors try REMAP the bad sectors using MHDD or VICTORIA .

REMAP won't help.
It's a translator corruption. Needs to be regenerated.

Hi,
WDC Can Be Repaired Easily By PC3k .Although It Takes time .Some People Work More On WDC's .We Have Then Extremely Rarely In India .

I tryed MHDD and it can't resolve it. After 53.2% have some ~50Mb of bad sectors. Impossible to repair it too.

Starling:
Can you suggest some SW for do it?

Amarbir:
Will try it right now.

Thanks for helpin' :wink:

hoakerk. wrote:I tryed MHDD and it can't resolve it. After 53.2% have some ~50Mb of bad sectors. Impossible to repair it too.

You said you had bad sectors all around the surface.
If it's just 50 MB then it's not translator.

By using HD LLF in Windows, shows me errors over all disc (I think it's becouse OS can't even detect HD.. don't know). With MHDD seems to be a little diferent. I think the last one is more credible.

About PC3k, I don't know if I can get it..

Hi hoakerk if you get errors all over disk is it because you run in LLF in windows or because the drive has been running longer and is getting hot. MHHD does surface scan VERY QUICKLY, drive does not run long enough to get really warm. Lots of WD get worse when hot, this is usually a PCB problem if it displays this symptom.(usually the bads are in different places if you keep track of the locations and scan a few times) If the data is already gone you can try to write 0's to the drive and try to reformat. Either way the drive is on it's way out.

I can make this disk work only with quick format and CHKDSK /R /F. But a problem is that I can't use it with raid10 system. Drive is reported like "Error Occurred (0)". When I try a full format, it's get en error and never ends. This drive has something realy strange.

C:\Users\hoakerk>chkdsk x: /r /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is New Volume.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
64 file records processed.
File verification completed.
0 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
0 EA records processed.
0 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
161 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
5 unindexed files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
64 security descriptors processed.
Security descriptor verification completed.
9 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
48 files processed.
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
61025325 free clusters processed.
Free space verification is complete.
Adding 13875 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.
Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

244196351 KB total disk space.
21568 KB in 5 files.
8 KB in 11 indexes.
55500 KB in bad sectors.
73475 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
244045800 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
61049087 total allocation units on disk.
61011450 allocation units available on disk.
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What I don't understand, is why I can not use it in raid system?