My brother dropped his laptop(hdd ST9320423AS) the other day.
When he tried to backup all the files, Win7 crashes every time when it's coping two large movies files( all other files are ok).
So looks like there are some bad sectors located in the two files.
The smart report looks like all right,
download/file.php?mode=view&id=9427

The drive failed Seatools(windows ver) Short Device selftest and the long generic test.
Only pass the short generic.

I'd like to know
1. What does the Seatools do in the Short Device Selftest?
2 . If it's just bad sectors, is there any free tools other than MHDD can trigger the relocating of bad sectors?
3. Why Win7 crashes. from my experience, it should just report error.

Btw
I can not get the drive at the moment. I can only chat with him via phone and internet.
I don't think he can handle mhdd. Is Seatools for DOS able to relocate the bad sectors?

Thank his luck that he managed to get his important files off, I'm sure the two large movie files can be downloaded or copied again. Bin the old drive and get a replacement and make sure not to drop the laptop again.

Shane

Yes. He is very lucky. I told him 9 out of 10 dropped laptoop will have a dead hdd.
And I told him to just use the laptop with the current hdd for downloading movie and TV series only.
But how to get rid of the bad sectors by himself?

1. Leave the two files with trouble on the drive so new files will not locate in the bad sectors?
2. Any windows tools can relocate the bad sectors? Or fill the hdd with files so writing to the bad sectors will trigger relocate?

Normally if you run scandisk and select surface scan it will check every part of the disk, and mark the bad sectors, but the problem I find is that bad sectors tend to grow rapidly over time due to damage.

Too many bad sectors will trigger the drives SMART warnings and overtime the laptop is booted, it will tell the user to replace the hard drive asap.

Shane

thanks Shane.