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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Reallocated sectors number went down?
So far from what I've read online reallocated sector count can't go down, at all. And yet, my hard drive that recently reported 24 bad sectors seems to decrease it?
Firstly, hard drive via S.M.A.R.T. ...
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Should I turn on ignore bad sectors and create and image immediately?
Trying to clone my 3TB HDD to a brand new 4TB HDD. But I get a CRC error
WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0 3TB
NTFS filesystem
Using Macrium Reflect 8 I get
Clone failed - Error 9 - Read failed - 23 - Data error (...
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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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Is there a tool to get as much data from partly damaged SSD as possible? [duplicate]
I have an SSD, Samsung Evo, 1TB, supposedly not the worst, that was not used in obviously damaging manner and CrystalDiskInfo showed supposedly 99% lifetime.
Still, there are uncopyable files - if the ...
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Does Easeus Partition Master mark bad sectors or just detect them? [duplicate]
I'm having trouble with an 10 year old WD BLACK HDD, having bad sectors.
I run a surface test with Easeus Partition Master and it found 6 bad sectors.
https://ibb.co/FswXbVJ
I'm planning to use this ...
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What does a beep sound mean from a working hard disk?
I have a laptop of 7 years old with a 2TB Seagate hard disk. About 2 years ago I heard a loud beep sound and it didn't happen again after months. But nowadays the intervals between the beep sound get'...
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Will Windows Defender full scan adversely affect a failing hard disc?
A monthly anti-malware full scan was run on this pc using Windows Defender (-aka- Windows Security) as routine, but not this month.
Will running a full scan from Windows Defender adversely affect the ...
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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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I am getting event log error with event id 11 is this bad for SSD
I have brand new ASUS ROG strix laptop and it shutdown abnormally and keyboard hangs sometimes could this be due bad hard-disk as i noticed event error logged under event id 11, 6008, 41
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Can I see bad sectors on an old, malfunctioning hard drive platter if I open it up? I do not care about fixing this drive. Simply curious
I have an old 250 GB Seagate hard drive that got really slow. I cloned it with Clonezilla on a new SSD, but I had to use the -rescue option since it had bad sectors. That option skips any bad sectors ...
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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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Finding files on a RAID5 ext4 filesystem associated to bad blocks on one HDD
I am running a NAS with Openmediavault 5 and I have set up a RAID5 (with mdadm) with 3x 5TB WD Red harddisks back in the day (see details below for mdadm output). I am using the whole disk as member ...
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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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How do you clone unformatted or unallocated disk with bad sector?
So I have an SSD, Kingston 240GB. The installed OS is Ubuntu, and this has been running for three years. Today, it failed to boot. “Reboot and select proper Boot Device” , that's what I get when I ...
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How to delete fake bad sectors from hard disk?
I have a portable 5TB HDD. I was downloading data on it and it was 3/4 (or so, almost full) full with documents.
I did chkdsk /f /v /r /x just to check it. It was shown to be perfect in HDD Sentinel ...
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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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Can bad sectors in hard drive really cause data loss?
I have a computer which is almost 10 years old now. It uses a hard disk which is also almost 10 years old. Recently I had installed a software called 'Hard Disk Sentinel' which checks the health of ...
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Any way to bypass/restore HDD sector count [duplicate]
I have a WDBU6Y0020BBK external hard disk which recently died for no apparent reason. It was making no strange noises, had no reported SMART issues last time I checked, and wasn't even that old. ...
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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 detect bad sectors in low use drives?
I have many Linux machines. Those are dedicated servers in data centers (Hetzner for example). There are some very old files that are never accessed by any process in the system.
I periodically test ...
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HDD SMART Recovery [duplicate]
I am performing data recovery on a HDD that has SMART failure. I need to get all the data copied off this disk. The disk contains a Windows C partition, that is all. I have many softwares and external ...
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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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Should I replace my SSD when it has 8 KB of bad sectors?
I have 8 KB in bad sectors. When I first found it I didn't do anything about it and checked 2 months later, but the number hasn't gone up, it remains 8 KB.
Free space verification is complete.
Windows ...
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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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RAID 5 bad sector / read error when rebuilding
Say I have a RAID 5 (Windows parity storage pool) and one drive fails.
I will plug in a new one and start rebuilding.
There are many people saying that if one of the remaining drives has a read ...
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Is it possible to check for bad sectors (read error) for a disk with unknown partitions?
Windows shows that the partition style is GPT, but of course, it does not recognise the partitions because it has Linux partitions. In this case, can I check the disk for physical read errors? I mean ...
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Does the information about bad sectors provided by S.M.A.R.T. and badblocks survive formatting? [closed]
I have read many questions and answers on SuperUser, ServerFault, and other websites about this topic, but I am still a little bit confused about S.M.A.R.T. and badblocks.
I saw that S.M.A.R.T. stores ...
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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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To seperate one badblocks test on entire drive to multiple tests, Is that good idea to create temp partitions and test on them?
I would like to run badblocks on one entire hard drive (8TB). For example:
$ sudo badblocks -wsv /dev/sdb
But, this will take days to complete. For some reasons, I can not leave the test PC on for ...
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Is `badblocks` meaningful on compact flash cards?
I own ten (10) compact flash cards. The cards are industrial high quality ones. Because of some random system crashes I checked all 10 cards using badblocks:
sudo badblocks -w -s -o badblocks-card1....
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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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Is it normal that Quick S.M.A.R.T test fails after successful repair?
I have two HDD WD7500BPKT and testing them using WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows .
Both of them had bad sectors. Both were successfully "repaired" (with WD Data Lifeguard proposed ...
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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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CHKDSK: "A disk read error occurredc0000010" on external USB HDD 3.0
I have a external HDD toshiba hdtb310xk3aa (1TB), and I have used it for a couple of years as storage for a Xbox One (Xbox HDD format), but from a couple of months I formatted it to NTFS to used it in ...
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When a HDD has bad sectors, are files that don't show up any errors at reading in good state?
Well, I am dealing with an HDD with some unreallocated bad sectors for the 2nd time (the first time was a dying HDD, but now this other HDD is just one with "caution" state according to ...
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What Runtime_Bad_Block mean in SMART Attributes? How critical is it?
My SSD has the following SMART Attribute Pre-fail.
What does that mean and how critical is it?
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0013 098 001 010 Pre-fail Always In_the_past 60
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How to move G-List bad sectors into P-List and reassign LBA
I have an HDD with 10319 bad sectors(reallocated sectors), this is the SMART information of the drive; There are 3097029168 sectors, bad sectors/total sectors is 0.00000333190274945450562188570256307, ...
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Can a disk with bad sectors be trusted after the bad sectors are fixed?
I had a Seagate Expansion 2TB(1,862.64514923095703125GiB) external HDD, about a week and half ago my computer freezes at random intervals, it becomes completely irresponsive to keyboard and mouse ...
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HDD & bad sectors, how are they handled? [duplicate]
Currently, I have 2 Seagate HDDs that are bad and I want to know how the Seatools, or another application, deal with these bad sectors.
As far as I know, bad sectors are some tiny sectors of the disk ...
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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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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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Shrinking hard drive due to bad sectors
I've got a 3TB Western Digital hard drive. It's pretty old, but one day, he suddenly stopped reading the files and he was slowing down the whole PC.
I decided to completely format that drive, and you ...
