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Bad Sectors on new refurbished drives, what to do next?
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bolija7851
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Bad Sectors on new refurbished drives, what to do next?
I am running Write+Read Destructive test and one drive is having problems (I guess)?
These are the screenshots. Write+Read Destructive test is still running, and was wondering what do next? Should I run reinitialise disk to fix the health percentage?
These are the screenshots. Write+Read Destructive test is still running, and was wondering what do next? Should I run reinitialise disk to fix the health percentage?
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hdsentinel
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Re: Bad Sectors on new refurbished drives, what to do next?
> Should I run reinitialise disk to fix the health percentage?
The Reinitialise Disk Test (or any other test) will not "fix" (improve back if you mean that) the Health percentage in this case.
The prupose of the disk tests exactly to reveal possible problems - or confirm that the drive is working perfectly.
The test you started performed well: revealed possible issues and forced the hard disk drive to reallocate the sectors (replace them with spare sectors).
As a result, the original bad sectors are no longer used: instead all further reads/writes use a spare sector
(this explained many times, eg. on this page: https://www.hdsentinel.com/faq.php#health )
So we can assume the drive is "perfect" but important to know and note the amount of bad sectors - to be informed about possible later changes, degradations (as further bad sectors may cause data corruption / data loss when real data stored).
Please check the Support -> Frequently Asked Questions -> How to repair hard disk drive? How to eliminate displayed hard disk problems?
https://www.hdsentinel.com/faq_repair_hard_disk_drive.php
page as it describes how to
- perform disk testing exactly to get the stable result (which may even mean lower health) to detect/reveal and stabilize all possible bad sectors
- and then manually acknowledge them, to manually restore the Health % to 100% for the current installed version.
This way Hard Disk Sentinel will no longer report these (fixed) bad sectors, just shows possible further changes.
Considering that the "end" of the drive shows the problems (you may notice the slower areas represented by the darker green blocks at the end of the disk surface) personally I'd consider making a partition slightly less than the total capacity, eg. only 90-95% of the total capacity.
This way you can be sure that the disk drive will not use that particular area (which is now just slower than expected but probably further bad sectors will appear there in the future) for data storage.
If you use Report menu -> Send test report to developer option, it is possible to check and assist with step-by-step details about how to improve back the Health % of the disk drive, to be notified about possible new problems only.
The Reinitialise Disk Test (or any other test) will not "fix" (improve back if you mean that) the Health percentage in this case.
The prupose of the disk tests exactly to reveal possible problems - or confirm that the drive is working perfectly.
The test you started performed well: revealed possible issues and forced the hard disk drive to reallocate the sectors (replace them with spare sectors).
As a result, the original bad sectors are no longer used: instead all further reads/writes use a spare sector
(this explained many times, eg. on this page: https://www.hdsentinel.com/faq.php#health )
So we can assume the drive is "perfect" but important to know and note the amount of bad sectors - to be informed about possible later changes, degradations (as further bad sectors may cause data corruption / data loss when real data stored).
Please check the Support -> Frequently Asked Questions -> How to repair hard disk drive? How to eliminate displayed hard disk problems?
https://www.hdsentinel.com/faq_repair_hard_disk_drive.php
page as it describes how to
- perform disk testing exactly to get the stable result (which may even mean lower health) to detect/reveal and stabilize all possible bad sectors
- and then manually acknowledge them, to manually restore the Health % to 100% for the current installed version.
This way Hard Disk Sentinel will no longer report these (fixed) bad sectors, just shows possible further changes.
Considering that the "end" of the drive shows the problems (you may notice the slower areas represented by the darker green blocks at the end of the disk surface) personally I'd consider making a partition slightly less than the total capacity, eg. only 90-95% of the total capacity.
This way you can be sure that the disk drive will not use that particular area (which is now just slower than expected but probably further bad sectors will appear there in the future) for data storage.
If you use Report menu -> Send test report to developer option, it is possible to check and assist with step-by-step details about how to improve back the Health % of the disk drive, to be notified about possible new problems only.