HDD GURU FORUMS

Hello guys.
I have an external hdd WD my passport, 1 terabyte and usb 3.0 (but now I use it in sata mode)

SO this is the story:

1)This Hdd once had a lot of problem but wit a lot of different tools and zeroing it from Windows I successfully fixed it.

2)I formatted it in exFat, everithing is ok and I can perfectly use it BUT after i wrote 40 gb it starts to show some messages in Windows. For how much I understood after the 40th GB it is locked in "read-only" mode and I can't write data anymore

3)I tryed to zerofill the Hard Drive with "dev zero" on Linux (I used the verbose parametre with bs=8 mega and also 512 kb).
The process works from 0 to 40 gb, but after that the speed became 1 gb/sec... I am sure that also DD skips these sectors because they are locked in "read-only" mode.
It says "error writing on dev/sda : no space left on device"


HOW CAN I FIX THIS PROBLEM TO FULLY USE/FORMAT THE DRIVE?

Should I use the 100% recover function of "Hdd regenerator" ?

Thank you in advance

Can you show us a SMART report?

Do your disk tools report the full 1TB capacity for the drive?

fzabkar wrote:Can you show us a SMART report?

Do your disk tools report the full 1TB capacity for the drive?

Yes the size is correctly recognized in each different program.
I know that there are a lot of bad sectors from 40th Gb to the last one and smart reports warning values on attribute 5, 197 e 198 (it's exadecimal...)
But the damage SURELY is not physic so I think that it will be a way to fix it... (hdd regenerator, mhdd...)

fzabkar wrote:Can you show us a SMART report?

Do your disk tools report the full 1TB capacity for the drive?

I know that there are a lot of bad sectors from the 40th gb to the last one.
Smart report warning values (exadecimal) on attributes 5, 197, 198

But the damege of my HDD SURELY is NOT physical, so it will exist a way to fix it (hddregenerator, mhdd...)

Mich-C wrote:

fzabkar wrote:Can you show us a SMART report?

Do your disk tools report the full 1TB capacity for the drive?

I know that there are a lot of bad sectors from the 40th gb to the last one.
Smart report warning values (exadecimal) on attributes 5, 197, 198

But the damege of my HDD SURELY is NOT physical, so it will exist a way to fix it (hddregenerator, mhdd...)

Sure ! Just buy a new drive !!! Problem solved.

Why do you say that the problem is not physical ? What do you mean by that ?

Why do you think that hdd(de)generator can fix your drive ?