My both 250gb hdd giving same problem:where lies the issue

[longlife]

Both of my Seagate 250GB hdds is giving same type of problem when i put them with HDDLLF 4.40 formatting after they failed to load windows.

4/7/2014 8:02:31 PM Low level format: [1] ST325031 8AS 0000 [250.05 GB] (488397168 512-byte sectors)
4/7/2014 8:02:31 PM Device capacity: 488,397,168 sectors
4/7/2014 8:02:31 PM Locking device...
4/7/2014 8:02:36 PM Formatting...
4/7/2014 8:02:59 PM Format Error occurred at offset 0: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:03:23 PM Format Error occurred at offset 65,536: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:03:46 PM Format Error occurred at offset 131,072: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:04:09 PM Format Error occurred at offset 196,608: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:04:32 PM Format Error occurred at offset 262,144: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:04:56 PM Format Error occurred at offset 327,680: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:05:19 PM Format Error occurred at offset 393,216: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:05:43 PM Format Error occurred at offset 458,752: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:06:53 PM Format Error occurred at offset 655,360: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:07:16 PM Format Error occurred at offset 720,896: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:07:39 PM Format Error occurred at offset 786,432: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:08:02 PM Format Error occurred at offset 851,968: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:08:26 PM Format Error occurred at offset 917,504: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:08:49 PM Format Error occurred at offset 983,040: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:09:12 PM Format Error occurred at offset 1,048,576: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:09:36 PM Format Error occurred at offset 1,114,112: 1117 - Device I/O error
4/7/2014 8:10:00 PM Format Error occurred at offset 1,179,648: 2 - Media was unplugged
4/7/2014 8:10:00 PM Device was unplugged, aborting...
4/7/2014 8:10:00 PM Average speed: 0.0 MB/s
4/7/2014 8:10:00 PM Operation terminated at offset 1,179,648 LBA 2304
4/7/2014 8:10:00 PM
4/7/2014 8:10:00 PM Remember to create new partitions.



Can any GURU throw light on the hdd condition. How they can be corrected?

[labtech]

Seems like you the drive has bad sectors

[fzabkar]

It seems unusual that every 64KB block is reporting a read error. Can you read sector 0 with a disc editor?

[longlife]

how i can read sector 0 with disk editor....by software name like........

[fzabkar]

dmde ...

[longlife]

thank u fzabkar

[longlife]

Now the drive is not being detected as secondary drive though it is being detected as usb drive.

Should i go for dos bootable usb drive. next what to check with DMDE.

Any other disk editor with USB support??

[longlife]

ANY SUGGESTION PLEASE...........

[labtech]

It's a USB based drive, so without modifying the interface to have better control and further diagnose the the drive in a better matter, the options are pretty much limited to plug and see if it works. If it does not, then pretty much game over.

Need expertise and tools to carry on further actions. The forum here is flooded with info on these drives.

[longlife]

it is not an USB drive it is a desktop one but detected in USB dock. any comments?

[warnerr]

try a utility to read the SMART status of drive- some free ones one this sites files section. If sectors are really failing it will be logged.

[labtech]

it is not an USB drive it is a desktop one but detected in USB dock. any comments?

Thanks for clarifying.
Would recommend MHDD diagnostic next

[longlife]

MHDD diag - all ok

[labtech]

Great, then logically it seems the problem is either the USB dock or USB cable connected from the dock to the machine.

[fzabkar]

I wouldn't persist with HDDLLF. Just use any tool that erases your drive or zero fills it. The term "low level format" is a misnomer for modern drives. The last time it made any sense was 20 years ago.