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| Author: | PotcFdk [ December 11th, 2010, 14:57 ] |
| Post subject: | How can I use my HDD again? |
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..... :/ |
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| Author: | PotcFdk [ December 11th, 2010, 17:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How can I use my HDD again? |
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? |
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| Author: | BlackST [ December 12th, 2010, 1:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How can I use my HDD again? |
Not what you think . |
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| Author: | PotcFdk [ December 12th, 2010, 3:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How can I use my HDD again? |
That doesn't really help me... |
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| Author: | BlackST [ December 12th, 2010, 5:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How can I use my HDD again? |
Me neither... |
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| Author: | PotcFdk [ December 12th, 2010, 6:26 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How can I use my HDD again? |
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.... |
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| Author: | fzabkar [ December 12th, 2010, 7:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How can I use my HDD again? |
PotcFdk wrote: 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? |
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