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Seagate HDD - Good or Bad?

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Geforcer

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Few weeks ago, I had a partition on the drive that the file system got corrupt. I had to use software to recover the data, which I was fortunate to recover about 98% of the data. I shrugged it off, and just reformated the partition, and began using it again. Well, this weekend, I noticed alot of errors in my Event Viewer. "The device, \Device\Harddisk2\D, has a bad block." So, I ran 3 different hard drive utilities on it, and all reported it bad seconds after I'd start the test. Not even thinking, I just called it in and got a RMA for it. Well, tonight I started pulling my data I needed off of it, and wiped out both partitions to get it ready to send off. After doing so, out of curiosity, I ran another test on the drive. It Passed! So I'm now running a few more tests on it to verify this finding. Then I'm going to recreate the partitions, format, and run some more tests. But just curious, from a 2nd opinion, Is the drive still good or should I still worry about it doing this same thing again later on down the road? Thanks

PS, Will post more after running more tests.
 
RMA when in doubt. Copy your data first though.

Working on a bad hard drive is an invitation for disaster. You could crash anytime in the future and be gg pwned. Don't take any risks. I tried living for 6 months on a bad IBM Deskstar. Formatted at least 20 times in that period.... You should see my sophomore yr's MY Documents. There are like gaps. 8/30 - 9/15 and then gap for like 2 weeks due to a bad format and then m ore documents... gap.... many My Documents - Backup(1/2/3/4/5) folders.... yea. Don't get caught up in that.
 
Well, do you think they'll take it now since it doesn't show any signs of being bad? I guess this is one of those times when a fix isn't a good thing 🙁 It does seem to be working though. I'm going to copy a bunch of large files to it and try to fill it up, and see if any turn out bad. Will post up my findings later on. Thanks
 
ok, remade the partitions, and ran a file system and partition check, and it comes up with "Minor Errors", but then says it's not errors to worry about. More testing......
 
Originally posted by: Geforcer
So, I ran 3 different hard drive utilities on it, and all reported it bad seconds after I'd start the test.
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What drive utilities did you run ?

Have you tried Gibson Research's Spinrite 6 ?

If Spinrite 6 says it is bad or good, you can pretty much count of it.

Good luck.

 
Originally posted by: wpshooter

What drive utilities did you run ?

Have you tried Gibson Research's Spinrite 6 ?

If Spinrite 6 says it is bad or good, you can pretty much count of it.

Good luck.
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I ran the Western Digital Diagnostics tool, Seagate Online tool, and some tool off of a boot utilities cd. Will try that program to test it out next.
 
Well, got my final answer. I made 2 partitions on the drive, and filled 1 up with junk. All was fine. When I tried to copy all the stuff from partition 1 to partition 2, I started getting more Bad Block errors in event viewer, and CRC errors that bombed out the xfer. Guess I'm RMA'ing the beast 🙁
 
As mentioned, quit messing with it and just RMA it. No sense in worrying about it. The error will likely show up again...
 
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