I've started a remapping scan of a 160 GB WD hdd, from which files would simply disappear after installing Fedora 13.
As of this moment it found 149 <3ms sectors, 23 <50ms sectors, 30 uncorrectables and 13 AMNF.
Average speed is 3 kb/s, actual is 4169 kb/s.
Total scanning time by now is about 1 hour IIRC.

Just looking for an idea how long it will scan for - i.e. several hours, days, weeks or months?

At an average of 3 kb/s the outlook should be 578 days, or year and a half. Does it really take that long to repair a drive?

The scan pattern is very uniform, it looks like this:

xRxR5_______xRxR5_______xRxR5_______xRxR5_______xRxR5_______xRxR5_
______xRxR5_______xRxR5_______xRxR5_______xRxR5_______xRxR5_______
xRxR5_______xRxR5_______xRxR5_______xRxR5_______xRxR5_______xRxR5_
______xRxR5_______xRxR5_______xRxR5

where R is for blue remap block, _ is for <3ms and 5 is for <5ms blocks. Does it mean head crash and that drive is garbage?

At this point there's really no reason to keep the drive unless you have some use for a known-bad HD. Regardless of how long the scan takes to finish it will not be "repaired" at the end.

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Bin the drive, it will only get worse with time.

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You are going about this wrong. You need to put the drive in a freezer for 48 hours, whack it with a hammer 8 times and then run SpinRite. If you aren't happy with the result, give it a second go with HDDRegen and throw it into your oven at 475 for another 24 hours. When finished, throw the drive in the garbage and buy a new one.

Seriously, though. A drive with one or two bad sectors might be worth a sector remap, but not without knowing why the two sectors are bad. A remap may not buy you much time, as the drive may completely fail in a matter days, hours or minutes. If you are playing, have fun. If you want to use the drive, you definitely need to buy a new one.

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Recovery Force Data Recovery

Bin it? Heck no, it's under warranty from WD.

Great, that's the ticket to a fresh start.

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