Drive had a bad board. The board went flaky over time (corrosion on HDA connector), and as it did, it filled up the GLIST with bad sectors which were not actually bad, because of the bad HDA contact caused by the corrosion.

Cleaned the HDA contacts and replaced the board, but now I'm stuck with a few actual bad sectors that cannot be remapped because the GLIST is full.

Low level reformatted the drive using micro-scope and the drive now tests perfect in MHDD from LBA 4000000 to the end of the drive, but I'd like to be able to use those first 4 million sectors too. MHDD FASTERASE fails with ERR.

PM ok. Muchos gracias amigos y amigas.

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Hi, You might be able to clear the GLIST with the Hdderase utility but only if the drive supports the 'enhanced security erase function'.

From the readme.......

To me it won't clear any G-list. It will TRY to clear ALSO the sectors in G-list for extended safety that otherwise would be excluded from erasing process, but the list itself won't be cleared. It's like internal formatting taking into account G-list entries.