Hard Disk Monitoring

Hi, I learned something today - Using these tools right way around may be very important. I started the surface scan again and ran it twice. First I ran the Surface Read test for the whole drive. The block 1060 was still red/damaged. The ran the test again, closer to that area - Still there. https:/...

Thank you for your long, detailed and clear answer. Very nice of you. But I found something unusual, well it seemed unusual to me. It's a 8TB HDD and reads and writes just fine. When running the Surface Test at avg. 185MB/s looks good. It found 2 damaged sectors. One at block 1060 and the other one ...

Hi, I tried to search and google this, there are many questions but no answers. Lets say a HDD has damaged sector(s) If I wanted to use the rest of the good area, (sectors) how should I do this? Its also being mentioned here: https://www.hdsentinel.com/help/en/61_surfacetest.html "It is recomme...