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Post subject: bad sectors on WD HDD

Posted: January 3rd, 2016, 4:29

Joined: January 2nd, 2016, 5:55
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Location: inthemoon

Hi everyone
In the first this error diplayed on laptop:
""windows detected a hard disk problem"
Then I scan laptop hdd with HD Tunes Pro
Its result is here:

and then, I use hdd regenerator for scan and repair!
but in about an hour it founds about 500,000 bad sectors and since It takes a long time to full scan, i didn't continue!
Now what should i do?!
Whats solution?!
I should replacement hdd or i can fix it?!
please help
THANKS

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Kum Ruzvelt

Post subject: Re: bad sectors on WD HDD

Posted: January 3rd, 2016, 12:40

Joined: December 17th, 2009, 22:57
Posts: 142
Location: Macedonia

Back Up your data on new hard disk. End of story.
This hard drive can not be repair for further normal use. It is worthless to spend days in self scan and end result to be bad drive again.

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Keatah

Post subject: Re: bad sectors on WD HDD

Posted: January 3rd, 2016, 14:05

Joined: April 26th, 2012, 1:52
Posts: 388
Location: Chicago, USA

..that's if the drive can survive the necessary amount of reading to conduct a backup. I'd send it straight to a data recovery professional if your data is worth more than $500 to you.

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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: bad sectors on WD HDD

Posted: January 3rd, 2016, 19:37

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
Posts: 16955
Location: Australia

one wrote:

I should replacement hdd or i can fix it?!

It sounds like you can live without your data. If so, then get rid of the drive.

You might try cleaning the HDA contacts, but I doubt that it will solve your problem.

Oxidisation on Western Digital PCBs:
http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php? ... 649&p=1789

If you need your data, then try to apply the "slow fix":
http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=848

HDDSuperTool has a "slow fix" script:
http://www.sdcomputingservice.com/hddsupertool
http://www.sdcomputingservice.com/hddsu ... ects=0&d=1
http://www.sdcomputingservice.com/hddsu ... ects=0&d=1

You can read all the drive's firmware modules with this script:
http://www.sdcomputingservice.com/hddsu ... ects=0&d=1

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galaxy

Post subject: Re: bad sectors on WD HDD

Posted: January 4th, 2016, 5:09

Joined: January 31st, 2014, 8:46
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Location: India

http://www.dposoft.net/hdd.html

downlaod freee demo and check

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one

Post subject: Re: bad sectors on WD HDD

Posted: January 4th, 2016, 9:32

Joined: January 2nd, 2016, 5:55
Posts: 2
Location: inthemoon

Spildit wrote:

Foirst BACKUP ALL THE DATA. Your drive will be gone very soon and will take the data with it !

Buy a new hard drive. If you need to recover the data from your drive you might want to clone it with ddrescue to the new one.

DO NOT USE HDDREGENERATOR on the drive as it will KILL IT for good.

At this point there is no way to reliable fix your drive, unless you have expensive firmware tools and knowledge to Self-Scan the drive, if possible at all, and if the heads/surface are in a bad shape the drive will not pass SS as well to start with.

So your priority should be :

1 - Backup all the data / recover all the data that you can.

2 - Replace the drive.

Further related reading :

Translator, Defect Lists and Bad Sectors :
Testing hard disks with some confidence :
Executing a "Cosmetic Fix" on drives with Bad Sectors :
Assigning slow sectors to the P-List :
Hardware assisted cloning of a drive with Bad Sectors :

Regards.

Thank all
Fortunately data is still available and no problem.
so as a result I replaced the drive.
but generally why HDD regenerator is bad for drive?! and for drives can be restored, what software (for windows or bootable) is good?!

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