Hard Disk Monitoring

I got a replacement today, so how should I prepare the drive? do you recommend a long term genetic test, or should I do re-initialization before start using it? So I can understand, does re-initialization include "long generic test", or are they both separate type of tests and mutually exc...

Thank you for your detailed answer

Yes I tried doing the test internally and even using USB 3.0 docking station; all fail cannot complete the test and eventually the test lock-out with no communication to the device.

So I guess this Hard drive is out of the picture

Thanks for the insight.

Hello, I just bought the software today since I liked it and needed it. I followed your guidelines, and ran short-test (failed due to read element), followed by long test (failed as well). The issue with the drive is TOO many bad sectors (over 7320 sectors) and over 1992 weak sectors. So I decided t...