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| Thread ID: 92131 | 2008-07-30 07:57:00 | HDD bad blocks? | rumpty (2863) | Press F1 |
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| 693543 | 2008-07-30 07:57:00 | I attempted to back up a FAT32 partition using Ghost 2003, but it came up with a message "bad blocks on read, 64 sectors starting from absolute sector 2259004, do you want to continue?" I ran the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test on the whole drive, using the Advanced Test which took about half an hour, and it came up with code 0x00, no errors. A clean bill of health, it seems. So who do I believe? Sometimes it takes two or three goes to boot the Windows OS on this drive though, the error message suggesting a boot.ini problem, so I'm a wee bit suspicious something is not quite right anyway. Maybe the drive should be erased, and partitioned again? |
rumpty (2863) | ||
| 693544 | 2008-07-30 08:45:00 | Hi Got that info on the net: ..."Handling bad blocks is a difficult problem as it often involves decisions about losing information. Modern storage devices tend to handle the simple cases automatically, for example by writing a disk sector that was read with difficulty to another area on the media. Even though such a remapping can be done by a disk drive transparently, there is still a lingering worry about media deterioration and the disk running out of spare sectors to remap. " I would suggest you go to www.sysinfolab.com and download smartudm. Put it on a usb/floppy and run it. It is non-destructive, and will show you all your S.M.A.R.T. logs and more. |
georgeks (9122) | ||
| 693545 | 2008-07-30 09:53:00 | Thanks georgeks, I'll try Smartudm, although the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test checked the S.M,A.R.T. log, I think. No harm in a second look though. | rumpty (2863) | ||
| 693546 | 2008-08-01 23:39:00 | Georgeks, I've run smartudm on my drives, and there could be something of interest there. Do you know how to interpret the results please? | rumpty (2863) | ||
| 693547 | 2008-08-02 04:39:00 | what are the results? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 693548 | 2008-08-02 06:31:00 | I attempted to back up a FAT32 partition using Ghost 2003, but it came up with a message "bad blocks on read, 64 sectors starting from absolute sector 2259004, do you want to continue?" Sometimes it takes two or three goes to boot the Windows OS on this drive though You can use the Ghost error switches so it will continue and ignore the errors. I wouldn't entirely trust the Hitachi software............ |
pctek (84) | ||
| 693549 | 2008-08-02 09:24:00 | what are the results? I haven't managed to put the results into a . jpg form to post on imagef1 . They take up more than a full screen, so I can't do it that way . Never mind . After doing some more reading, it seems that S . M . A . R . T drive diagnosis may be over-rated anyway . As you say, pctek, the Hitachi diagnosis may tend to flatter the drive?!! It may ignore reassigned blocks that Ghost still sees? I'm almost 100% sure that there is something wrong with the drive though . Took an image of the drive with Seagate Drive Wizard, put the image on another old drive, put that drive back in the same position in the computer, and it boots reliably every time . |
rumpty (2863) | ||
| 693550 | 2008-08-05 04:56:00 | You can save the report from smartudm. It will be saved on the media you have used. Then you can open it with notepad. | georgeks (9122) | ||
| 693551 | 2008-08-05 04:58:00 | If Ghost sees dodgy sectors, even after a chkdsk, the drive is faulty. | wratterus (105) | ||
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