Im not doing this to defruad anyone so lets not get into that one. Im also not looking for a way to remove marked bad sectors.
Most of the drives that are coming up with spin-up or data transfer issues are due to defective motherboards and other nonsense like that. They had tons of weak sectors and the reinitalize surface fixed all of them. (no bad sectors)
Ive seen people fruading people out by clearing all smart info so I know its out there.
Reinitalize disk surface, How to reset error count?
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Re: Reinitalize disk surface, How to reset error count?
Yes, this is exactly true. In many cases, "weak" sectors reported by Hard Disk Sentinel (incorrectly reported as unreadable/bad sectors by chkdsk) caused by the operating environment (cables, connections, power supply or even a sudden power failure/reset).
Yes, in most cases the Disk menu -> Surface test -> Reinitialise Disk Surface test can fix them completely: then the hard disk will not report further problems, the complete surface can be used and chkdsk also shows no problems.
This is exactly described at: http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_cas ... ectors.php
(Available from Support -> Frequently Asked Questions -> What is a weak sector? How to repair weak sectors? )
Yes, in most cases the Disk menu -> Surface test -> Reinitialise Disk Surface test can fix them completely: then the hard disk will not report further problems, the complete surface can be used and chkdsk also shows no problems.
This is exactly described at: http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_cas ... ectors.php
(Available from Support -> Frequently Asked Questions -> What is a weak sector? How to repair weak sectors? )
Re: Reinitalize disk surface, How to reset error count?
Was looking for a way to reset the low power or spin up errors. But on another note, have you ever seen bad sectors disappear after this? I had a couple of drives with 1 or 2 bad sectors that disappeared after. I didnt know that was possible with the software and thought smart would leave them no matter what.
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Re: Reinitalize disk surface, How to reset error count?
To reset the spin up errors, please
- select the S.M.A.R.T. page of the appropriate hard disk in Hard Disk Sentinel
- locate the attribute "10 Spin Retry Count"
- in the "Offset" column of this attribute, click on the 0 between the - and + buttons and (after confirming that you understand that this adjustment affects the displayed health of the hard disk) specify the amount of problems reported in the text description, just with negative sign.
For example, if originally you see "Problems occurred during the spin up of the disk 5 times. " then you should specify -5
Soon the amount of problems will reset to zero, the errors will be removed from the text description and the health of the hard disk also will increase.
So then Hard Disk Sentinel will only report possible new issues (if there will be).
Please check http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_case_spin_retry.php
for more information about spin up problems, most common causes (yes, many times the power source / power supply or connections).
As the hard disk counts all such errors in its lifetime, it is a good idea to (after correction of the problem which caused the spin up erors) reset the error counter this way, to acknowledge the previous errors and be notified about new errors only.
Please check also http://www.hdsentinel.com/faq_repair_ha ... _drive.php
which describes how to clear error count in general (just that shows the procedure for a different attribute).
Yes, in some cases (especially if the amount of bad sectors is very low and the hard disk status is otherwise stable) some hard disk drive models may automatically decrease the bad sector count, generally doing the above automatically. This is independent from software and performed by the hard disk itself,
Hard Disk Sentinel (by the intensive tests) helps the hard disk to verify and confirm that the hard disk is stable, there are no further problems.
Of course this does not mean that the original sector will be re-used, that sector is reallocated, never be read/written again.
- select the S.M.A.R.T. page of the appropriate hard disk in Hard Disk Sentinel
- locate the attribute "10 Spin Retry Count"
- in the "Offset" column of this attribute, click on the 0 between the - and + buttons and (after confirming that you understand that this adjustment affects the displayed health of the hard disk) specify the amount of problems reported in the text description, just with negative sign.
For example, if originally you see "Problems occurred during the spin up of the disk 5 times. " then you should specify -5
Soon the amount of problems will reset to zero, the errors will be removed from the text description and the health of the hard disk also will increase.
So then Hard Disk Sentinel will only report possible new issues (if there will be).
Please check http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_case_spin_retry.php
for more information about spin up problems, most common causes (yes, many times the power source / power supply or connections).
As the hard disk counts all such errors in its lifetime, it is a good idea to (after correction of the problem which caused the spin up erors) reset the error counter this way, to acknowledge the previous errors and be notified about new errors only.
Please check also http://www.hdsentinel.com/faq_repair_ha ... _drive.php
which describes how to clear error count in general (just that shows the procedure for a different attribute).
Yes, in some cases (especially if the amount of bad sectors is very low and the hard disk status is otherwise stable) some hard disk drive models may automatically decrease the bad sector count, generally doing the above automatically. This is independent from software and performed by the hard disk itself,
Hard Disk Sentinel (by the intensive tests) helps the hard disk to verify and confirm that the hard disk is stable, there are no further problems.
Of course this does not mean that the original sector will be re-used, that sector is reallocated, never be read/written again.
radzer0 wrote:Was looking for a way to reset the low power or spin up errors. But on another note, have you ever seen bad sectors disappear after this? I had a couple of drives with 1 or 2 bad sectors that disappeared after. I didnt know that was possible with the software and thought smart would leave them no matter what.