Hello there,
Apologies if this is a repeated post, I just wanted some guidance.
I have a 13 year old HDD from Toshiba (MQ01ABD100) inside Transcend StoreJet enclosure that I have not used in a while
It was formatted to FAT32 and recently I had backed up some files on it but there was data corruption.
I ran Victoria HDD analysis and this is the result:
Based on what I read I understand that this is not a good sign and I know the drive is failing.
But I want to salvage whatever I can just for pure mass storage of unimportant files.
This is the S.M.A.R.T status
Right now after the write cycle from Victoria, I am full formatting it to NTFS to see if it can, as previously with CHKDSK and Diskpart it would not work, tried zeroing with format command as well.
So after this I will run the write cycles 2 more times to see if the same blocks and sectors are a problem and after the 2 writes, I will use the remap option.
Is there anything else I should do?
Should I partition off the first 80GB (after confirmation with additional tests) and separate it off to prevent further corruption?
I have barely used this drive so don't want to bin it, any guidance would be appreciated.
Apologies if this has already been discussed as I am not very sure what to do now.
Logs:
Code:
16:41:09 : Surface scan PAUSED
16:44:47 : Command interrupted by user!
16:46:08 : Recallibration... OK
16:46:11 : Starting ERASING, LBA=0..1953525167, FULL, sequential access, timeout 10000ms
16:46:58 : Warning! Block start at 8970240 (5 GB) = 2094 ms
16:47:01 : Warning! Block start at 9097216 (5 GB) = 1047 ms
16:47:02 : Warning! Block start at 9164800 (5 GB) = 1031 ms
16:47:11 : Warning! Block start at 10723328 (5 GB) = 1047 ms
16:47:27 : Warning! Block start at 11591680 (6 GB) = 8984 ms
16:49:39 : Warning! Block start at 39038976 (20 GB) = 1532 ms
16:49:41 : Warning! Block start at 39196672 (20 GB) = 1000 ms
16:52:27 : Warning! Block start at 74418176 (38 GB) = 5812 ms
16:58:37 : Warning! Block start at 154982400 (79 GB) = 1093 ms
16:58:48 : Warning! Block start at 155904000 (80 GB) = 4782 ms
17:57:28 : Block start at 871245824 (446 GB) Write error: preset timeout limit
19:57:34 : *** Scan results: Warnings - 11, errors - 0. Last block at 1953525167 (1,0 TB), time 3 hours 11 minutes 26 seconds.
19:57:34 : Speed: Maximum 120 MB/s. Average 64 MB/s. Minimum 8 MB/s. 1335 points.
20:44:11 : Drive reported: SMART status = Unknown
20:44:11 : Victoria reported: SMART status = Unideal
Many thanks