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graxor
 Post subject: WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0 Damaged Help
PostPosted: April 19th, 2012, 8:43 
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Hello.
I have one problem.
My disk WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0 work, but have physical bad sectors.
I tryied delete MHDD, Victoria and nothing.
How i can repair this sector or skip this sectors in disk structure?
Full format and disk will be work correctly, but this sectors wasn`t used.

Firmware Disk is: 01.01A02

Help pls. Is there a way to repair the disk?
Sorry for my english.
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hddguy
 Post subject: Re: WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0 Damaged Help
PostPosted: April 19th, 2012, 9:51 
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Data is obviously of no importance. Trash the HDD and get it replaced
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graxor
 Post subject: Re: WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0 Damaged Help
PostPosted: April 19th, 2012, 9:57 
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Can i try repair some method? hm
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AzureSky
 Post subject: Re: WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0 Damaged Help
PostPosted: April 19th, 2012, 10:33 
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There is no way to _reliably_ repair the HDD. It WILL fail.

The only thing you can do really is to make an empty partition where those sectors are located (Calculate the start and end size from bad sector position) and add +1GB of them to start and end of it or increase that size to 5GB if there is a lot of bad sectors there.

Maybe it could live, but don't put too much hope in it.

I did this with 80GB HDD which just toppled - instant damage. Made a 3GB empty partition and it was happy with it. It is a hdd for making and trying different installs of OS - I don't trust it with ANY data. Sad thing is - it was/is still more reliable than Seagate 500GB HDD and 120GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD ... both died after treating them super-nicely.
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graxor
 Post subject: Re: WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0 Damaged Help
PostPosted: April 19th, 2012, 11:13 
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AzureSky wrote:
There is no way to _reliably_ repair the HDD. It WILL fail.

The only thing you can do really is to make an empty partition where those sectors are located (Calculate the start and end size from bad sector position) and add +1GB of them to start and end of it or increase that size to 5GB if there is a lot of bad sectors there.

Maybe it could live, but don't put too much hope in it.

I did this with 80GB HDD which just toppled - instant damage. Made a 3GB empty partition and it was happy with it. It is a hdd for making and trying different installs of OS - I don't trust it with ANY data. Sad thing is - it was/is still more reliable than Seagate 500GB HDD and 120GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD ... both died after treating them super-nicely.


so i must make 2 partitions? before bad sectors (one) and after (two) ?
I don`t create one partition without bad sectors?
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poehere
 Post subject: Re: WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0 Damaged Help
PostPosted: April 19th, 2012, 13:56 
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Check to see if under warrenty and send in for RMA :mrgreen:

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AzureSky
 Post subject: Re: WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0 Damaged Help
PostPosted: April 19th, 2012, 15:45 
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You can make three - the one that is covering the bad sectors can be left unformatted.
But two is OK as well.
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hddguy
 Post subject: Re: WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0 Damaged Help
PostPosted: April 20th, 2012, 5:30 
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@AzureSky

Would you honestly save your data to this drive???
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fzabkar
 Post subject: Re: WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0 Damaged Help
PostPosted: April 20th, 2012, 14:27 
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hddguy wrote:
@AzureSky

Would you honestly save your data to this drive???


AzureSky wrote:
Maybe it could live, but don't put too much hope in it.

I did this with 80GB HDD which just toppled - instant damage. Made a 3GB empty partition and it was happy with it. It is a hdd for making and trying different installs of OS - I don't trust it with ANY data.

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poehere
 Post subject: Re: WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0 Damaged Help
PostPosted: April 20th, 2012, 15:15 
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hddguy wrote:
@AzureSky

Would you honestly save your data to this drive???

:oops: Everyone is right. Not a good idea to use this drive and test your data with it. Sorry

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aaapppleee
 Post subject: Re: WD5000BEVT-24A0RT0 Damaged Help
PostPosted: April 20th, 2012, 16:07 
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AzureSky wrote:
There is no way to _reliably_ repair the HDD. It WILL fail.

The only thing you can do really is to make an empty partition where those sectors are located (Calculate the start and end size from bad sector position) and add +1GB of them to start and end of it or increase that size to 5GB if there is a lot of bad sectors there.
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I've been lots of hdd working all right for years with the method you mentioned above.
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