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 Post subject: Toshiba 2.5" drive broken or not?
PostPosted: August 15th, 2005, 8:49 
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Hi all.

I'm new to this forum and have not worked that much with this level of HDD utilities before. I have, I think, a small question. I have a portable with a Toshiba drive that could not boot the OS. The drive made the "known" ticking sound and I tried to backup as much as possible of the data on the drive. When I tested the drive with MHDD 4.2 from the Ultimate boot CD it started ticking the same way when it reached 24% during the scan of the drive resulting in a number of X-UNC . I then erased, scan+erase waits and then used scan+remap. After this the drive is not ticking anymore, but it still has 50 brown and 1 red block after a scan. So my question is if this drive can be trusted in the future to reinstall the OS on? Or is it likely it will cause problem again? Can I test the drive somehow? I read something about zero fill programs or can I test this in MHDD? Like a "pressure/burn in test" for the drive, so it wont fail when starting to handle data.

Thanks in advance,
Gripen.

Thanks for the utility Dmitry.


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PostPosted: August 15th, 2005, 9:11 
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"Zero Fill" = "Low-level formt" = "erase" in mhdd. :-)
Can you post the SMART of your drive (F8 in MHDD)?


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PostPosted: August 15th, 2005, 9:15 
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Ok... Perfect.. I have the drive at home so I can post the SMART tomorrow. Thanks for the reply Dmitry.


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PostPosted: August 15th, 2005, 9:50 
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HI DIMITRY

is there a way of hiding " slow sectors " ?

is there a way mhdd can "remap" them ?

if not what utility can hide these "slow sectors" , hddl maybe?

regards

AryeS


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these questions are answered in FAQ... If Erase didn't help, then there is no free solution.


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PostPosted: August 15th, 2005, 15:18 
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Here are the SMART and also a screenshot of the "timetable" for the sectors.

[PRE]HDD: TOSHIBA MK1214GAP; FW: N0.11 A; SN: N0.11 A
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Name Val Worst Raw
Att # 1 : Read error rate : 253 100 0
Att # 2 : Throughput performance : 100 100 0
Att # 3 : Spin up time : 100 100 2089
Att # 4 : Number of spin-up times : 100 100 3657
Att # 5 : Reallocated sectors count : 100 100 62
Att # 8 : Seek time performance : 100 100 0
Att # 9 : Power-on time : 89 89 4674
Att # 10 : Spin-up retries : 172 100 0
Att # 12 : Start/stop count : 100 100 2087
Att # 220 : Disk shift : 100 100 32
Att # 222 : Loaded hours : 94 94 2505
Att # 223 : Load retry count : 100 100 0
Att # 224 : Load friction : 100 100 0
Att # 225 : Load cycle count : 64 64 360202
Att # 226 : Load-in time : 100 1 429
Att # 228 : Power-off retract count : 100 100 42
[/PRE]

AVG [ 10667 kb/s]
ACT [ 7560 kb/s]
° <3ms : 1
± <10ms : 28069
² <50ms : 64109
Û <150ms: 238
Û <500ms: 49
Û >500ms: 2
?=TIME -
x=UNC -
!=ABRT -
S=IDNF -
A=AMNF -
0=T0NF -
*=BBK -
[100.0% ] [100.0% ]

Start : 07:35:40
Time : ***.**
End : ***.**
Total : 00:18.25

20:32:22

\ Gripen


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I would erase it one more time, and if the quantity of red sectors won't increase, then this drive is OK.


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PostPosted: August 16th, 2005, 4:03 
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Ok..

Thanks for the help Dmitry.


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