Bad sector

Secondary hard disk came back with a bad sector today that seatools could not recover. Drive has 4 partitions of which errors seem to be in the first logical drive. Did a 2% erase with seatools and drive is now accessible again. Am using Partition find and mount to get remaining data off onto other drives. It's a seagate drive 500 gb I bought as a pair. C drive has passed long test so assuming thats ok. After I get the data off should I full wipe then do a long test to see if the unrecoverable bad sectors have been remapped? Slow going getting the data tho could be at this all night.

Bin it

Agreed one they start being dodgy .........

You mentioned an all night task to recover the data, cost your time, then look at the cost of a 1TB replacement, to stop it happening again in a couple of months.

Gave up trying to recover from disk it was taking too long so wiped and tested. 44 bad sectors in on go so just restored from a back up. Might go for a hitachi next time.

Ordered a Hitachi which cost as much as two seagate drives of same size 2 years ago.

Edited by Banger (Thu 22-Mar-12 02:34:17)

Well I have run a surface scan after doing a full erase and the drive seems fine. Smart was never tripped, hopefully the hitachi will turn up friday.

Hitachi fitted and formatting.