Hi doing a diag on an 320 gb drive and for some reason near 93% I'm running in to a very stubborn area. Its showing.. WWW?WWW?WWWWW?WWW?W?? The problem is the ?'s take from 5-8 hours to timeout. I'm currently in erase mode. I was hopping there was a key I could hit to just mark it a wait, erase it, and move on. Guessing that is not an option. Is there something I can do to speed this up? From what I know I need to do a remap next and this first pass has lasted 3 days.

Are you trying to recover data from this drive, or just repair it?

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

FYI using MHDD. should have mentioned that.

Just repair. data is backed. Though I dont understand how you could recover data with MHDD?

Just trying to get a sense of what you were trying to accomplish

IMO if the drive is having this much trouble scanning and erasing, you are not going to be able to get it back to usability

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

I tend to agree at this point. BTW, are the W's a wait ( and marked as bad to be remapped ) and the ?'s just a really long wait? I have another drive 1TB with a lot of W's in a few spots on the drive. At least > 150 of them.

my 1TB has 9740 waits erased, is it worth mapping them? Or is this way too many.

If they were truly bad then the drive would have taken care of the remapping on its own. IMO the best an end user can do is zerofill the whole drive, then scan after to see if any bad sectors remain. If you want to be extra paranoid then retire/return any drives with bad sectors present in SMART.

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.