December 4th, 2020, 13:05
December 4th, 2020, 13:21
December 4th, 2020, 17:32
michael chiklis wrote:If there are a lot of bad sectors also Victoria might kill heads, but chance that Victoria will do the same are higher!
michael chiklis wrote:Your drive has pending sectors + G-sense error (without any reallocated), this could mean that there is already a weak/dead head.
December 5th, 2020, 11:24
December 5th, 2020, 15:24
diybit wrote:done three full write with Victoria (+option write LBA num)
December 5th, 2020, 17:17
December 6th, 2020, 8:17
December 6th, 2020, 11:51
December 13th, 2020, 17:31
diybit wrote:You have to plug this drive as a secondary drive or eventually by USB to execute those erase.
Or you have to prepare CD-ROM or USB to boot from, like "ultimate boot CD", that contain "Darik boot and nuke", but you can also use MHDD/HDAT2 or any other that permit you full rewriting the drive.
December 13th, 2020, 20:52
December 14th, 2020, 4:16
Your drive has pending sectors + G-sense error (without any reallocated), this could mean that there is already a weak/dead head.
Often pending without reallocated means that you can restore them, and that they are maybe logical errors.
But yes, and depending of the results, the drive is not safe to store critical data.
So if you have time to try:
- done three full write with Victoria (+option write LBA num)
- if your drive is doing something after a write pass (noise, touch it), let it finish before starting next pass
- maybe let the drive plugged and idle for about 3-4 hours after those three erase pass
- go show SMART, look if pending is fall at 0 and if so do next
- full read it with Victoria, save the result with slow/error sectors, and show full chart (untick Grid option)
Killing head or bin it is the same result, so burn it and made it fail now... (but I doubt head fail will occur when looking at your current SMART)
I don't know about G-Sense, but your seems not alarming.
Scandisk says that there are no problems on the disk, while the situation on Crystal Disk Info is unchanged.
The laptop where the disk in question is mounted has always been sitting on a table so, what is the reason of the G-Sense errors ?
Since Windows started only in Safe Mode, I tried to delete the components that are loaded by the operating system at startup, in the hope that the failed sectors would be occupied by a non-essential component.
April 16th, 2021, 5:21
diybit wrote:The only way you get to eventually repair those pending is by full writing the drive, so retry, and maybe with another solution than VSC Secure Erase.
Look if the pending fall to 0 just after full write, if yes, re-done 2-3 full writing.
abolibibelot wrote:- full read it with Victoria, save the result with slow/error sectors, and show full chart (untick Grid option)
That would be the first thing to do (I would do that with HD Sentinel, but only because I have little experience with Victoria, if it indeed allows to export the complete list of errors then it's just as good for that purpose). Then check how those errors are distributed. If there are random errors all over the surface, I would say that the drive is no longer usable for anything, period. If there's one damaged spot or strip near the beginning (which is often the case for a system drive, since odds are high that a system file is being accessed when there's a shock, and system files being written first when the O.S. is installed, they are mostly located near the beginning), then deleting the current partition(s) and creating a new one beyond the damaged area, with at least 1GB of safety margin, may allow to squeeze some more life out of it, for non-critical data (for instance : to play media files on TV, or to bring copies of files on a trip...).
April 16th, 2021, 6:42
April 16th, 2021, 7:12
diybit wrote:Are you saying that now you get 632 realloc and 0 pending?
diybit wrote:Right test it with many pass, unplug, retest it next day.
April 16th, 2021, 8:53
April 16th, 2021, 9:09
April 16th, 2021, 11:39
diybit wrote:I do not know the HD Sentinel scans, does it tell you the LBA sectors in error?
diybit wrote:I recommend you using Victoria for the moment, and done a map of where are the last defects detected.
So your next step is firstly full read to see your actual state, do this Victoria read and post the screen here, post the image as attachment because I cannot see imgur images...
diybit wrote:@abolibibelot, why you seems to want to be careful with this drive! we have to hammer it to judge if it is re-usable.
April 16th, 2021, 14:22
April 17th, 2021, 20:31
April 19th, 2021, 5:39
diybit wrote:Try to find the exact sector(s) that slow down on this part by choosing block size of 1 sector ...
diybit wrote:The HD Sentinel report is showing about 100 bad sectors, so there are about 500 previous that we dont know where they are.
You have to at least target with multi pass those three zones 0, 6804 and 8244 for further tests.
Do it with the HD Sentinel "Reinitialize disk surface" if you can, and also reduce the retry to 0 if you can.
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