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cybernick
 Post subject: How to erase slow sectors
PostPosted: July 31st, 2007, 9:44 
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I do not care about the data and the capacity I will loose. Just is there a method to erase (make them totally unusable) the slow sectors? If so which software and how?
I tried MHDD but it did not help me (erase, scan erase delay and remap did not help)
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Dmitry Postrigan
 Post subject: Re: How to erase slow sectors
PostPosted: July 31st, 2007, 19:13 
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Short answer - there is no way to do that :)
Longer answer - some people probably can do that, but in most cases it does not make sense because the drive will die very soon anyways.

Sorry :oops:

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cybernick
 Post subject: Re: How to erase slow sectors
PostPosted: August 1st, 2007, 6:48 
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I send one of HDD in that state to a tech guy. He did something and fixed it. He did not tell me? I am sure that there should be a solution. I do not care I can even loose the half capacity.
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rameez
 Post subject: Re: How to erase slow sectors
PostPosted: August 4th, 2007, 13:21 
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Location: In ur HDD !
which brand is the hdd ? And the best solution for these drives is selfscan .
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cybernick
 Post subject: Re: How to erase slow sectors
PostPosted: August 5th, 2007, 9:55 
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The drive is Toshiba MK2023GAS. Any idea about this
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RJARRRPCGP
 Post subject: Re: How to erase slow sectors
PostPosted: August 5th, 2007, 12:48 
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I suggest that you use Victoria and try again. It seemed to catch slow sectors better.
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aleste81
 Post subject: Re: How to erase slow sectors
PostPosted: September 29th, 2007, 22:27 
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http://files.hddguru.com/

search makebad it transform slow sectors into bad.
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