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| Author: | ulao [ June 27th, 2011, 9:18 ] |
| Post subject: | skip those sectors that take 8 hours? |
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. |
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| Author: | drc [ June 27th, 2011, 9:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: skip those sectors that take 8 hours? |
Are you trying to recover data from this drive, or just repair it? |
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| Author: | ulao [ June 27th, 2011, 9:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: skip those sectors that take 8 hours? |
FYI using MHDD. should have mentioned that. Just repair. data is backed. Though I dont understand how you could recover data with MHDD? |
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| Author: | drc [ June 27th, 2011, 11:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: skip those sectors that take 8 hours? |
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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| Author: | ulao [ June 27th, 2011, 13:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: skip those sectors that take 8 hours? |
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. |
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| Author: | ulao [ June 27th, 2011, 15:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: skip those sectors that take 8 hours? |
my 1TB has 9740 waits erased, is it worth mapping them? Or is this way too many. |
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| Author: | drc [ June 27th, 2011, 15:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: skip those sectors that take 8 hours? |
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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