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
February 17th, 2008, 20:27
Drive: WD400BB. Windows FDISK shows error reading the drive. The Western Digital program show an error, and the Maxtor HD routine said (IIRC) track 0/sector1 error.
MHDD'scan' shows Error: 0, 16065, 1181415, 150780. Running scan with remap and erase on did not fix it. SMART showed remaps of 109 (under columns 1, 2), 361 (column 3 "raw").
There is no data to be recovered, so scrapping the drive is not a big loss, but it seems a shame to throw it away when it is 99.9999% good. Is there something (easily) done to make it useable?