Hello,

I have a Seagate 1.5T SATA drive (ST31500341AS) which has few bad blocks (I noticed it as few files were not being copied).

Later I ran "Hard Disk Sentinel" which showed 4% health with 125 bad blocks (with 3 days of life left). I backed up whatever files (couldn't backup few) available and did low level format. Now Sentinel shows 24% health with 25 days of life left.

I know we can't fix bad blocks (as they are physical) but since the LFF fixed the issue a little bit, i would like to know if there is anything else we can do to make it 100% health?

Thanks

USE HDD REGENT OR

if the address of the sectors are close to one another, you can partition the disk with a partition that holds none of those bad sectors, and it should be fine but the drive is likely to get more soon, so my advise is to bin it.

If you already have the data you need, then what the heck go ahead and try running that HDD Regenerator software on it. Most likely it'll just kill the drive, but who knows maybe it'll work for a while after... I woudn't trust it for anything you can't afford to suddenly lose though.

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First of all - please show smart from this drive. (And do not use HDD Regenerator)