32 Gb of bad sectors on a 60 Gb hd (long)

[antoine_lucas_fr]

Hello,

I have a "funny" story on a laptop Dell Inspiron with XP sp2 and a
Fujitsu MHV2060AH (60 Gb) which contains about only 6 Gb of datas

1/ The notebook boots but xp don't starts. After some tests (chkdsk,
recovery and so on) Dell changes the hd : some (*** few ***) bad
sectors on windows directory.

2/ When I have the new hd, I make a copy with Ghost (I can use the old
one with an IDE / USB adaptator ; chkdsk on it before the copy).

3/ With the new hd the laptop boots well and xp starts. Nice.

4/ chkdsk new hd => 38062432 kb of bad sectors ... After that I try
chkdsk by the console, at boot, ...)

5/ So I try :
- HD tune 2.51 => Error scan => no bad sectors
- FJDT (Fujitsu ATA Diagnostic Tool) => no bad sectors
- Dell utilities => no errors
- ONTRACK Data Advisor => no bad sectors

6/ And now ? Can I recovery this bad sectors without format my hard
disk ?

Thank you

PS : sorry for my poor english.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Will you please post a copy of the Health tab in HD Tune?

What is the make and model of the computer? Is the hard drive formatted
as FAT32 or NTFS -see Info tab in HD Tune. What is shown as the drive
capacity? With what tool was the drive formatted?

A 32 gb bad sector report doesn't sound right. It could be a partition
problem.

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[antoine_lucas_fr]

Gerry Cornell a écrit :

Hello,

Will you please post a copy of the Health tab in HD Tune?

HD Tune: FUJITSU MHV2060AH Health

ID Current Worst Threshold Data Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 100 100 46 8621 Ok
(02) Throughput Performance 100 100 0 18219008 Ok
(03) Spin Up Time 100 100 25 0 Ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 100 100 0 15 Ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 100 24 0 Ok
(07) Seek Error Rate 100 100 0 3991 Ok
(08) Seek Time Performance 100 100 0 0 Ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 100 100 0 205578 Ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 0 0 Ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 100 100 0 14 Ok
(C0) Power Off Retract Count 100 100 0 0 Ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 100 100 0 791 Ok
(C2) Temperature 100 100 0 1245221 Ok
(C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 100 100 0 53 Ok
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 100 100 0 457310208 Ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 0 0 Ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 100 100 0 0 Ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 Ok
(C8) Write Error Rate 100 100 0 19690 Ok
(CB) (unknown attribute) 100 100 0 -8126615 Ok

Power On Time : 205578
Health Status : Ok

What is the make and model of the computer? Is the hard drive formatted

Dell Inspiron 510m

as FAT32 or NTFS -see Info tab in HD Tune. What is shown as the drive
NTFS

capacity?

For the xp partition : 54329 Mb. Usage is 81,87%

With what tool was the drive formatted?

Ghost (when copy the old disk)

 

[Ron Martell]

Hello,

I have a "funny" story on a laptop Dell Inspiron with XP sp2 and a
Fujitsu MHV2060AH (60 Gb) which contains about only 6 Gb of datas

1/ The notebook boots but xp don't starts. After some tests (chkdsk,
recovery and so on) Dell changes the hd : some (*** few ***) bad
sectors on windows directory.

2/ When I have the new hd, I make a copy with Ghost (I can use the old
one with an IDE / USB adaptator ; chkdsk on it before the copy).

3/ With the new hd the laptop boots well and xp starts. Nice.

4/ chkdsk new hd => 38062432 kb of bad sectors ... After that I try
chkdsk by the console, at boot, ...)

5/ So I try :
- HD tune 2.51 => Error scan => no bad sectors
- FJDT (Fujitsu ATA Diagnostic Tool) => no bad sectors
- Dell utilities => no errors
- ONTRACK Data Advisor => no bad sectors

6/ And now ? Can I recovery this bad sectors without format my hard
disk ?

The best available utility for recovering bad sectors and restoring
them to use is Spinrite from Gibson Research (www.grc.com)

However there are some other points to consider:

1. The cost of Spinrite is probably pretty close to that of a new
hard drive, so a new drive is probably worth considering.

2. Spinrite can take a considerable amount of time to examine and
restore good sectors to use so fixing 32 gb worth of bad ones could
take forever plus a week.

If you still have the Ghost backup image available, or if you can
create a new one from the new hard drive, then I would suggest that
you do that then delete the partition completely from the new hard
drive, repartition it, reformat and reinstall.

The bottom line is that a hard drive with half its capacity tied up in
bad sectors is not a good idea under any circumstances, and whatever
caused those bad sectors is likely to happen again, causing even more
problems.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada