glhd wrote:
rec wrote:
Your posting is incomprehensible and contradictory ...
2) I would like to try to recover the read write functionality of the sectors marked as pending, not their actual content, because I was told in this forum that
"pending without reallocated means that you can restore them, and that they are maybe logical errors", see
this old post. Possibly I would also like to format the disk to exclude the damaged part on the disk surface.
I hope I have clarified.
Of course, you did now!
Your pending sectors are not readible. Once they receive a write command they will be overwritten successfully (don't know) or mapped to spare sectors.
If they will be overwritten (maybe?) the pending sector count will be decreased.
If they will be remapped the pending sector count will be decreased and the "reallocated sector count" will increase.
As long as there are spares available writing files will cure your problems.
But failure is likely to show up if you need your backups and start reading them. Most likely new sectors will exhibit reading problems.
As for your plans, the pending sectors are not necessarily densely concentrated in one area.