Hey guys... I have a problem with a Hitachi HTS54?? it's a 500GB HDD from a MAc Book pro (I think). A friend gave it to me for free and he told me it is broken. I need it for a PS3 (even if I use it for a few days it's perfect). I have a PS3 that is not mine and I have to give it back in a few days, I want to play a few games but I don't have an HDD. If I reinstall the FW on the PS3 it will start but after 15/20 minutes will freeze and I will have to reset it, after I reset the PS3 it will say that the File System is corrupt and has to be recovered (it will not work, and here I have a loop, it will try to recover the file system it will reset and after that it will say again that the file system is corrupt).

Now the HDD it's in my PC and it's checked by HDD Regenerator (which takes forever). I'm w8ing for 2h now and got to 1.5% and it's saying that it has 0 Bad Sectors and 145 Delays. What exactly are this delays?

I had a similar problem with a 320GB Scorpio Blue a year ago, but that one had bad sectors somewhere between 80% and 90% so I flashed it with a FW from a 250GB Scorpio Blue...

Can I do something similar here? The problem is that this Delays (what exactly are this Delays? I tried to look on google but I didn't find any good answers) are at the beginning of the HDD... I really don't care if the drive will fail after I play a few games and also I don't have any data on it so I can mess with it around.

Any suggestions?

Thanx

Sounds like the drive has bad sectors. Which means it's bad. Don't use it for PS3, just buy a new one. You could try formatting the drive completely, but it may not help.

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Yup, I know, I tested it with Hitachi Drive Fitness Test on quick and got ''Drive Failure - Excessive Shock''. It's not my PS3 so buying a new HDD is out of the question. I gave up on HDD regenerator... I'll try to check it with seagate seatools to see if I have just some consecutive bad sectors, if there are random bad sectors or if the whole drive is bad.

My question is this... Lets say that just the first sectors are bad... I don't know lets say first 5% of the drive has bad sectors, can I do something to it so the PS3 will not use those sectors?