Hi everybody

To make a question short & simple, were someone of you able to remove "delays blocks" with success with MHDD ? I follow all steps from FAQ (erase, scan+erasedelays, scan+remap ) but red + brown blocks still show up when I rescan the hard drive.

If I run only scan+erase delays, the red + brown blocks are gone. But when I rescan the hard drive without erase delays, the red + brown blocks will show up again. Am I missed something ?

what do you want?
data recover?
refurbish drive?

It is more refurbish drive.
I want to save my 1tb harddrive. Their are few red blocks at the beginning of the disk and some of them become bad sectors time to time. These make partition table unreadable and cause system freeze. I don't use this hdd for stocking something important. I use it only for stocking tv recording.

I wouldn't use it for anything.

The rest of the disk surface are excellent and the red & brown block don't seem increased (7 in totals). The only problem with those red & brown blocks are located at the beginning of the disk and the system uses these blocks for partition or for MFT.

If my memory serves me right, the HDD controller doesn't care about the file system, so remapping unstable block should do. GPT? In the case of NTFS, a win7 and on have nice 'software' mapping via chkdsk [drive:] /r /b (not sure about XP though).

Anyway, as far as the HDD isn't active (bootable), how about unclaimed space at the beginning--moving the partition?

Can use for parts/donors.

@OP - sell it on ebay (or here on the forum in the market section) as is for parts and use the money to buy yourself a new drive.

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Never mind. the hdd is dead now (click of death). The bios doesn't even detect the hdd now. I already attempted to isolate those blocks with partition magic, but the hard drive still used this space.

Anyway thank you all for the inputs.