[rescue] Bad Sectors

[velociraptor]

+1 to this.  Spinright is a great program, very reminiscent of Norton
back in it's heyday.  It's a permanent part of my data recovery
toolbox.

It has this "last ditch" feature for refreshing bad/weak sectors.

=Nadine=


On 1/18/07, Brian Howe <bwhowe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with Brock, and would add that there is a utility called spinright
> at http://www.grc.com/intro.htm that you could possibly use to recover and
> restore that lost sectors. I'm not affiliated with the product or the
> company, but I have used it in the past with excellent results.
>
> Brian
>
> On 1/18/07, Brock Johnson <wildefire at brotay.net> wrote:
> >
> > Aaron Finley wrote:
> > > I have received a number of 100+gb IDE hard drives, in various states
> > > of operation.
> > >
> > > Some drives are testing with 100 or more bad sectors in the first five
> > > minutes of a scan, so I am tossing them out.
> > >
> > > Other drives may have one or two over the entire range of the scan (up
> > > to 200 GB).
> > >
> > > How many bad sectors is bad? Are *any* bad sectors found with a scan
> > > justification for throwing out a drive? I understand that most drives
> > > ship with bad sectors which have been remapped, so any sectors I find
> > > with a scan are likkely to be new bad ones, pointing to imminent disk
> > > failure.. ?
> > >
> > > I'm using Salvation Scan, freeware off of the Ultimate Boot Disk, if it
> > matters.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Aaron Finley
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> >
> > If it's a lower-grade manufacturer (Maxtor and the budget model WD's
> > spring to mind) I'd toss it. If the sectors marked as bad are in very
> > close proximity, I'd toss it.
> >
> > As well, I'd recommend running the manufacturer's testing program
> > against the drive. I would guess most of those programs have tricks in
> > them for manipulating that manufacturer's drives that 3rd party tools
> > can't do. (Seatools and PowerMax both seem to from what I've seen, with
> > respect to remapping bad sectors at least)
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