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..... :/

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?

Not what you think .

That doesn't really help me...

Me neither...

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....

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?

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