ST31000333AS bad sectors stops drive

[kpeddie]

Got one of these in. 6 heads which seem fine but two of the surfaces have a lot of bads on them. Seems to have corrupted MFT.

Everytime it hits of the the bad sectors I have to get DE to switch the drive off and on before it will read again, is this normal or is there any way around it?

Imaging the 4 decent surfaces first then go back to the other two.

Atola insight wont do selective heads on this drive. I have a DDI on order but wont arrive for a week or two so DE is my only choice at present. Looks like this is going to take an age....Any suggestions welcome

[pcimage]

Disable the defect adding and other options in "edit drive ID" in the Seagate utility.

See if that helps

[kpeddie]

oh yes.....should read manual! ill try that

ta

[Vitaliy Mokosiy]

kpeddie,
this drive is already supported in new Atola Insight 3.2