Questions tagged [bad-sectors]
Use this tag when referring to bad sectors on a hard drive. This is similar to bad clusters or bad blocks. Suggested use is for questions about possible failure of a HDD.
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What causes this HDD sector damage pattern?
Out of curiosity, I ran GNU ddrescue on a Seagate ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB hard drive with known bad sectors, and then I visualized the ddrescue mapfile with ddrescueview.
When I zoomed in, this ...
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How do I determine what file occupies a given sector in Mac OS X?
There are similar questions for Windows and Linux, but I need this on OS X. The filesystem is HFS+, journaled. I have a sector LBA, I could find where a partition starts with gpt (though it refuses to ...
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What is wrong with my HDD?
The first value marked in yellow is seen in the picture and the other is:
Current pending Sector Count Current:100 Worst:100 Threshold:0 Raw Values:000000000003
Whatever this problem is, is making ...
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How can I find out what's on a certain block in an HFS+ formatted drive?
I've a hard disk that has damaged blocks. I'm now copying it using ddrescue to an external drive.
I've a file with the list of the damaged blocks, how can I find out which files are located in the ...
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Repairing partition table with wrong sector size messed by usb-adapter and with possible block errors
I have a 4TB WD hdd (with sector size of 512e/4096) that was first formatted as GPT/ext4 with an usb-sata enclosure/adapter on a Raspberry Pi 3. Apparently the load was too much for Rpi3, and ...
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Even weirder "Error splicing file: Input/output error"
I know this is the n'th question out there on the "Error splicing file: Input/output error" message, but I'm experiencing some behavior inconsistent enough with the other posts I'm reading ...
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Failing hard drive or bad controller after hard shutdown
After nouveau freezing everything with dual monitor for the millionth time I had to cut power on my macbook pro (mid 2010, fedora 24, SAMSUNG HN-M500MBB hard drive). Wasn't doing anything IO heavy ...
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Current pending sector is 2 but cannot be reproduced
smartctl shows "No Errors Logged"
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
smartctl -t long results in "Completed without error"
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num ...
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Linux - Repairing bad blocks on a RAID1 array with GPT
The tl;dr: how would I go about fixing a bad block on 1 disk in a RAID1 array?
But please read this whole thing for what I've tried already and possible errors in my methods. I've tried to be as ...
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mdadm raid5 read error not correctable
I have a software raid5 setup existing of 4 disks.
sda, sdb, sdc, sdd
Since everything was up and running I wanted to test the array. To do this I pulled the plug on one of the disks (sdd).
Everything ...
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If I copied some files from a hard disk with bad sectors without errors, are those files unaffected?
Or do I have to find a backup?
It had thousands of reallocated sectors.
I ran badblocks on one partition but not others. Does that change the result?
I'm using Ubuntu. Some partitions are ntfs and ...
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NTFS-SSD: Testing: Write data to use whole disk Linux - overflow
I want to test the reliability of harddrives (mostly SSD) to check when they break down.
(I think this question fits best on Superuser instead of stackoverflow or server fault.)
I know there are tools ...
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Why is a hard drive with no remaining spare sectors considered "broken"?
This is more of a theoretical question than a practical one. I am aware that in most (all?) cases, when a hard drive displays signs of trouble then the rational thing to do is to replace it.
From what ...
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Diagnosing HDD performance
I have a 2.5 inch HDD for that was bought new about a year ago and connected to a Raspberry Pi 4 to act as a NAS.
The HDD (a WD Blue WD10SPZX, 1TB, 5400rpm, SATA 3) is housed in an USB 2.0 aluminum ...
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Strange SSD issues, need asssistance please
So for some reason my boot drive ssd just kinda seemed to have broke. I went to shut down and the system froze during shut down, had to hard restart. When I did the label on my ssd changed from ...
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Remapping bad sectors from sectors not in the spare sector pool
For common flash controllers what happens when the spare-sector pool runs out and a bad-sector is found? Will a flash controller (any form factor) remap failing sectors to non-allocated sectors in the ...
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Lots of bad sectors on a new SSD drive
I have a two week old laptop with a 128GB SSD. After a week during (presumably) the first fsck job run on the machine, I got a load of short read errors.
After allowing fsck to fix the errors, I ...
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Is there a way to figure out the exact sector numbers of clusters “chkdsk” reports as bad?
Recently I run chkdsk after it finished it showed 4 clusters in size 4kb are bad, is there any way to know the sector numbers of them?
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Sudden hard drive failures
In the past month I experienced three hard drives suddenly failing for seemingly no reason:
A 500GB SATA Samsung hard drive in an RF511 notebook (6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI ...
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So I found and marked some bad clusters—now what?
I don't know exactly why, but hard drive failure happens to me quite often. This time around, three out of my eight drives failed almost at the same time (two HDDs and one SSD).
I still don't know ...
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Write errors on USB pendrives will get reported?
In case there is a write error when writing to a USB pendrive (for example due to a bad sector), should the operating system give me a notice, an error message? And if there is no such error message, ...
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Data-Recovery from External hard disk which has bad sectors
I accidentally pulled out my externa hard disk from my TV without unmounting it. After this the HDD is not working properly. When I plug it in my laptop it says that the USB device is not recognizable....
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SSD has a lot of bad sectors on Windows, but I can't find any bad sectors in Linux
The title is self-explained, on Windows PE, I used DiskGenius to fix the drive, the EFI partition is screwed so I decided to remake one.
After I got in PE, I opened DiskGenius, and realize it took so ...
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How to make best use of only good sectors/partitions on a semi-faulty HDD?
Some time ago, I've been given a Toshiba 1TB external USB drive for free.
The reason for this giveaway was that the drive allegedly stops copying/reading at random and is therefore too faulty to use. ...
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Synology NAS: Bad sector warning, but drive passes all S.M.A.R.T. tests and IronWolf tests. Replace?
I have a Synology NAS and received a warning that "Bad sectors on Drive 12 have increased." I ran the quick S.M.A.R.T. test and the IronWolf (Seagate brand) health test and both say that the ...
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Copy CD to ISO including bad sectors
I am currently trying to copy a Sims2 Game CD to ISO as most CD Disk-trays are now retired and aren't common on newer machines.
I've tried multiple disk tools but this disk has a purpose bad sector on ...
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in linux, how to copy or move files that produce input/output errors (bad sectors), even partially in another hard disk (HDD) without creating image
in linux, how to copy or move files that produce input/output errors (bad sectors), even partially in another hard disk (HDD) without creating image.
I have some personal movies and pics which lie on ...
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Can a power outage cause bad sectors on an HDD?
I've tried the Google-verse and can't find the specific answer I need.
A friend of mine asked me to look at her laptop which only boots to a non-responsive desktop after a power issue. I booted to a ...
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USB/USB-C combo flash drive mounts and works on Windows and Android, but not macOS
I have a flash drive that supports both USB and USB-C. The problem with this flash drive is that it works on Windows, but not on macOS. Specifically:
The drive is exFAT-formatted and does not have ...
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Lock a file in hard drive sector from accessing by any process
I have C5 Current Pending Sector Count is 1 on my HDD after writing on it.
I found the file in that bad sector (a folder hash computing with 7zip just stopped on that file).
Then I moved the file to a ...
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Ubuntu stucked on splash screen (Can't able to enter on user/password, desktop screen)
I am stuck on how to load completely the OS and the login/password screen, the PC stops on the Ubuntu black screen and stuck on it:
This is the situation from my HDD in GParted, which seems that ...
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CrystalDiskInfo Caution Error
I have checked my external HDD using Crystaldiskinfo.After I copied some files to the HDD Reallocated sectors count increased to 3360 from 3352 in Raw Values sector.What does this means? Should I buy ...
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How to remove bad sectors from SSD disk, format, create partitions and install win 10
Upgraded my disk to a new SSD but seem to have screwed it by not realising that my Dell desktop Vostro was only a MBR bios and I tried to create a GPT system partition. Now after many and varied ...
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chkdsk on external hard drive stucks at level 4
Running chkdsk g: /f /r on my 1 TB external hard drive with NTFS file format stucks at level 4. I let it run for 24 hours but there is no progress.
I tried to make a backup of its content but at a ...
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How should i deal with sector errors if i want to clone HDD to SSD?
I recently purchased a Samsung 870 EVO SSD that is going to replace my Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD as my main drive.
My intention was to simply clone the drive using Macrium Reflect but i got this error ...
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solid state disk some random files corrupted; how to prevent in simple terms
Please see What happens in a raid (5) when one drive or more gets a bad sector?. I have a few .jpg files (and much more serious data). Some of the .jpg files become corrupted. I can tell because ...
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Temperature threshold CrystalDiskInfo value
Could you please help me get understand what this value (C2 Temperature Threshold 70) means and do I have to worry about ssd or do i need to replace? :
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CrystalDiskinfo "Caution" on WDC Black HDD
Crystal Disk Info on one of my WDC Black shows Caution like on screen:
The disk is empty, data from it was transferred elsewhere. So data loss is not a problem.
tl;dr - can I still use this disk for ...
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Can an external hard drive damage an internal hard drive?
I have an external hard drive of 2TB that accidentally felled and it wasn't showing data on my laptop. I searched to find out if its a hardware damage then I found out that pc is detecting an external ...
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An hard drive that is not always detected - and 912 bad sectors. Replace?
I have an HDD on a Dell Inspiron 15-3521 computer.
When I try to boot windows 10 on that computer, there is only a blank screen with blinking cursor. I checked the S.M.A.R.T results, and it turns out ...
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Bad sectors on brand new NVMe SSD's
At work I have roughly 50 brand new Dell Optiplex 7070's with LiteOn SSD's that were loaded with a custom Windows 10 image using Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5.
A few weeks after imaging, ~30 of these PC's ...
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HDAT2 Bad sector fix performs so freaking long
I have old laptop with os boot related issue. It wasn't booting previously installed windows 10 so I decided to install Linux Mint 20 instead. But something went wrong. I've got I/O error at /dev/sda ...
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Is a sector number determined forever?
If 'alpha' was a physical place on HDD occupying 1000th sector once,
is 'alpha' a place on HDD occupyig 1000th sector forever?
Forever means regardless of 'got bad sectors, low format, reset S.M.A....
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Can't install windows 8.1 - setup stucked
Recently I got a desktop with a hard disk Toshiba 500GB which has windows 7 installed on it.
When turning on the computer, windows logo appears and it does not go beyond that. After about 30 minutes ...
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How to recover soft bad sectors
How to get rid of soft bad sectors obtained from cloning a faulty disc?
I have a EFI HDD with some bad sectors from a DELL computer. It's been causing headache for quite some time. So want to replace ...
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Are there any issues with recovering bad sectors in a HDD?
I'm using the "HDD Regenerator" program, registered version. I want to recover the bad sectors in my HD that has Windows 7 Ultimate OS installed on it. I created a boot-able USB stick to be able to ...
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I can't change SATA hard disk (working in UDMA) to PIO mode in Linux
I'm trying to disable DMA in my SATA 3.5" hard disk drive to work in PIO mode because for recovering some bad sectors from a failing disk with GNU ddrescue
I am using PartedMagic Linux live CD and I ...
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Read only file system after reformatting and repartitiniong
I am facing some issue in my one of hardisk. I have cleaned it completely, scanned it for bad sectors and reformatted it but again it giving me readonly file system error on next day.
Here is ...
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Create smaller partition to cope with bad sectors on 2TB HDD
I have a 2TB WD (My Passport Ultra) external HDD that has developed bad sectors, and I want to continue using it for non-essential/non-critical storage (I fortunately recovered all data that was on ...
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External Hard Drive: Is it bad or still good to use?
I have an external HDD (Seagate Backup Plus 2TB) and it had some problems lately, therefore I had run some test on it and it turned out to have some… problems, if I can call them like that. Below are ...