yesterday when i got home i was surprised to see that my old sammy was turned on but not appearing on the explorer in windows

hard disk was on in the dock ... i left it on copying files from this hard drive in the morning to my computer for backing it up files.... it seems that it got an error in the middle while copying but windows didn't show up anything

well i removed the power from the dock and plug in again and i got:










I noticed the huge increase in the write errors












than i started trying to copy my important folder and i couldn't... i noticed on the previous image that the hard drive was bad but it wasn't found any bad sectors soo i said to me lets see what i can do ( this is not a seagate DM series ... its a proper samsung HDD or i wouldn't have bought it.... )

remove the PCB from hard disk and cleaned with a rubber and i got clean contacts after that

using goodsync software i was able to copy the contents not backed up previously ( 99%) with two folders erroring E/S read error ( not much of a big deal)

teracopy and windows explorer couldn't copy anything from that hard drive i think this software cant deal with bad sectors and gets stalled...

after been able to copy my folder




















i started hard disk sentinel and started an hard disk write and read test pass to see what would appear















this morning i was greated by this...


a clean green beautiful color and im almost sure will pass the test with no problem

i dont know that it was but it seems ok im prepared to give it another chance to store my data ( i like the old samsung HDDs )



is there any way to reset and get

100 Performance
100 health
??????


( im allways getting this) amd im unable to use this hard drive on my WD NAS because of smart status







can you guys help me ?

have a great weekend

hope this is easy to read

Hi Spildit... drive doesnt have any bad sectors detected ... i will use again to backup my data

this doesnt make sense my friend drive seems to be good ( i will use this drive as a backup from a wd 2tb drive) and the WD drtive is in perfect shape

could you please provide more tests to prove that is in shape ? im not rich to toss my good old sammy to the trash bin without any confirmation




rest my case for now looool

now testing with long generic test

didnt drop the drive... yet...

all my sammys have g sense errors i think its a recorrent problem but never triggered a smart fail

it seems that the drive thinks itself that is toast but its not yet...

i will use this drive as my second storage drive backing a wd drive

i was using this external dock when the hard drive "failed"

the other drives are functioning fine on this external dock...

long generic pass test passed


so its really a failed smart ( software ) and not hardware

Okay but hardware wise drive seems fine Spildit... I dont understand why it did this 100% --> 9% without any reason 2 corrupted files? ok it happens sometimes ...

im backing up my external wd2tb drive data to this one and i will report if write errors increase....

after generic short pass and generic long pass raw read error value 904 --> 906 and write error didnt increase

like you say if the raw values stabilize it was another thing that caused this issue

remember to update now hard disk sentinel 4.50 to 4.60 and voila.... amazingly this did what i needed stop blinking red cross over this hard drive

im happy now




i will try putting the drive back on NAS just for testing if it really have a good smart internally




thanks for all the help Spildit

Yup drive still thinks that is bad only this hard disk sentinel is reading correctly the important values and ignoring the bad status

Ok already transfered 1.79tb of data to the drive and copied from the drive to see if the errors would ocour was able to read all the files wihout any error

So im happy

Thanks for the help i will use this drive as a backup