Zero write on a bad sector HDD, Freeze

[cgraider]

Hi
i have a WD mypassport 4TB hdd which started to have bad sectors due to power surge,
simple recovering was making it to produce more bad sectors, so i used HDDsuperclone to recover data which it was very successfull.

now i'm trying to zero fill HDD before sending it to warranty ...
i used HD tune zero fill but it got stuck on bad sectors .

i'm looking for a software like HDDsuperclone which can handle bad sectors while writing zero into it.
HELP!

[ShaneWard]

Just return it for a new one, no point chancing a doggy drive.

[sourcerer]

I don't have a solution to offer, perhaps there is some disk wiping software out there that does it already. But I noted it as a feature request for hddsuperclone: https://github.com/thesourcerer8/hddsup ... /issues/36

[Zero Alpha]

You could try using linux dd

Code:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M conv=noerror,sync status=progress


replace 'X' with your drive and it should zero fill it and skip bad sectors because of the conv=noerror,sync flag.

We have an inhouse app that solves this problem but I think playing around with different linux commands will achieve what you want. Depending on how bad your drive is you can give dd even more options like jumping and building a map.

[pepe]

try formatting it with the provided wd util , this should set up a new encryption key, making old data unreadable instantly

[cgraider]

thanks all, i finally managed to format it in HD tune SECTOR mode. and returned it to warranty.