bad-sectors

2TB HDD, bad sectors in one area around 3GB, can I safely use it if partitioned beyond that defective area?

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My main HDD is a 2TB Seagate ST2000DM001. Recently I got weird issues which turned out to be related to bad sectors (the HDD disappearing all of a sudden from the system, a BSOD with no other likely cause) : a red warning in HD Sentinel indicates that there are more than 1300 weak / … Read more

What is the “write page” size of a WDS200T2B0A/WDS200T2B0B?

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Does anyone know the write page¹ size of a Western Digital Blue SATA SSD (model numbers WDS200T2B0A or WDS200T2B0B)? I contacted WD support and they’re claiming it is 512B, but most information I’ve seen on modern SSD’s suggests that that is highly unlikely. (That is, while the drive controller can emulate writing to individual 512B … Read more

How to recover soft bad sectors

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How to get rid of soft bad sectors obtained from cloning a faulty disc? I have a EFI HDD with some bad sectors from a DELL computer. It’s been causing headache for quite some time. So want to replace it. Because of that bad sectors Macrium couldn’t do direct cloning. Hence I found a work … Read more

Is a sector number determined forever?

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If ‘alpha’ was a physical place on HDD occupying 1000th sector once, is ‘alpha’ a place on HDD occupyig 1000th sector forever? Forever means regardless of ‘got bad sectors, low format, reset S.M.A.R.T, remap..’ Here 1000th sector means 1000th sector in common HDD error checking program. Answer Disks have spare sectors and will silently use … Read more

HDAT2 Bad sector fix performs so freaking long

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I have old laptop with os boot related issue. It wasn’t booting previously installed windows 10 so I decided to install Linux Mint 20 instead. But something went wrong. I’ve got I/O error at /dev/sda and I thought that it have to be the hard drive issue. I’ve restarted laptop, run Linux Live CD and … Read more

Aligning partitions to 4k boundaries results in 512b free space at beginning of drive

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I’m partitioning a disk for FreeBSD installation. I create my partitions/slices: gpart create -s mbr ada0 gpart add -t freebsd -s 1G ada0 gpart add -t freebsd ada0 gpart create -s bsd ada0s1 Now I get the following message: # gpart show ada0 => 63 488397105 ada0 MBR (233G) 63 2097152 1 freebsd (1.0G) 2097215 … Read more

An hard drive that is not always detected – and 912 bad sectors. Replace?

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I have an HDD on a Dell Inspiron 15-3521 computer. When I try to boot windows 10 on that computer, there is only a blank screen with blinking cursor. I checked the S.M.A.R.T results, and it turns out that the HDD has 912 bad sectors. I am putting here the results of the S.M.A.R.T results: … Read more

Why is dvdisaster data redundancy not working?

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I did some dvdisaster tests. Carried out tests as before – on CD (because it’s cheaper). As a result – I DOUBT about the effectiveness of dvdisaster. I used this version: dvdisaster on github Situation: CD (80 minutes, 703 MB) with 80% fullness was supplemented to 701 MB with 22.6% redundancy (47 roots) using the … Read more

To seperate one badblocks test on entire drive to multiple tests, Is that good idea to create temp partitions and test on them?

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I would like to run badblocks on one entire hard drive (8TB). For example: $ sudo badblocks -wsv /dev/sdb But, this will take days to complete. For some reasons, I can not leave the test PC on for days. I have to shut it down everyday. Is that a good idea to create some temp … Read more