Bad sector on first sector, is it still usable?

[chapas]

Hello,
I need some help with faulty hard drive (on picture), the drive it's on the picture.
I don't have any data on the drive that i want to recover.
Mechanically the drive doesn't produce any strange sound/noise.
The scan (on picture) only render the first sector as BAD, I assume the rest of the drive it's fine.
Every time I try to format or crate a partition (Windows and Linux) I get a generic 'no can do' error.
To my understanding, the problem is the bad sector on the first sector (MBR and Partition Table).
I wish to use the disk as a non-bootable disk.
what software do you recommend to do a low level format on a WD disk?

Any idea make this disk usable on linux?

Thanks in advance,
Chapas

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[northwind]

Not really.
I'm afraid the only realistic solution would be to bin the drive and buy a new one.

[hhddrec]

Hi chapas,

The best with drives with bad secs, is waste it, because maybe in future actual problem makes you lost data. take in mind that 320GB drive cost about 50 Eur, but how much cost your data?

[galaxy]

dont worry you can download hdd regenerator

[hhddrec]

dont worry you can download hdd regenerator

is an option, but not always can regenerat all secs

[chapas]

Thanks for all your answers,
I have in mind to use it with torrents, so if I lose something it will be no greater loss. Torrents are known for lots of reads and writes, so it might have a shorter life just for that.
I'll will try hdd regenerator and MHDD (if I haven't done it yet...)

Regards,
Chapas

[galaxy]

hdd regenertaor you can use and this programme is not damage any kind of data i use it 6years

[HaQue]

hdd regenertaor you can use and this programme is not damage any kind of data i use it 6years

But it is not a magic wand to fix every kind of fail in a HDD

[hhddrec]

But it is not a magic wand to fix every kind of fail in a HDD

that is!

[galaxy]

this is it

[northwind]

[fzabkar]

If you write to a bad sector, the drive should automatically reallocate its LBA to a good spare. Try zero-filling the drive and then rescan it. Alternatively, try writing to sector 0 using a disc editor (eg DMDE freeware).

That said, I wouldn't trust the drive with my important data, but you may have non-critical uses for it.

Incidentally, what does SMART tell you?