How can I use my HDD again?

[PotcFdk]

Hey.
I used HDDerase to wipe my 80 GB Maxtor HDD (the normal secure erase, not the encanched one).
It took about 2 hours to complete, but I got a "erase successfull".
Well, I booted GPARTED and wrote a msdos partition table, and tried to create a 30 GB NTFS partition.
It gave me a I/O error.
When using the Windows XP boot CD, it just stops when formatting.
Using MHDD's SCAN, I get many errors (it wasn't like this before erasing it).
What can I do?


Thanks.

Edit:
Some additional informations:
the first 4 blocks are okay, then 10 blocks with 'x' and 'A'.
After that, I get 8 normal blocks again.
Then again 10 As and Xes.
then again 8 normal blocks.

There's something wrong..... :/

[PotcFdk]

Okay, I think I know what problem I have.
When I erased the HDD, all mapped bad sectors have been unmapped (Is that true?).
Now all bad sectors (many...) are uncovered.
I also scanned soe sectors at positions 40'000'000 and 140'000'000 - there exist more good sectors.
Since this HDD won't store any important stuff, I will just remap all these bad sectors.

Anyways, does a secure ATA erase (which I did with HDDerase/SecureErase) clean the G/P-list?

[BlackST]

Not what you think .

[PotcFdk]

That doesn't really help me...

[BlackST]

Me neither...

[PotcFdk]

Dude, if you can't help me, just stop giving me dumb answers.

I'd like to know what happened to the HDD, since the MHDD scan was totally OKAY before erasing it....

[fzabkar]

Anyways, does a secure ATA erase (which I did with HDDerase/SecureErase) clean the G/P-list?

I don't think it makes any sense for an ATA erase to clear the G/P-lists. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the drive rewrites the bad sectors in both lists.

Anyway, check the SMART report. Do you see any reallocated sectors?