[SOLVED] Hard Disk Sector Remap
November 18th, 2013
198,Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count,0,200,200,OK (Always passing),000000000002,0,Enabled
Anyways, that’s the SMART read out. Everything else is fine, just these two reading. It says two pending sector counts, but in reality it’s only 1 now. I was able to fix the first sector error by rewriting the data back to it. Unfortunately the other one is permanently damaged. Now normally you’d do a format to remap the damaged sector, but I don’t really want to. Far to much on the drive, and no where to put it. I don’t care about the information of it, it would just take weeks to get all the files re-downloaded.
So I’m wondering, is there any programs out there that can just write to the damaged sector and force my drive to remap it? I’ve heard the seagate tools can write zero’s to only that sector, and force the drive to remap it. But I don’t know if that’s really safe for the rest of my data.
I’m not worried about drive failure, the pending sector count has not increased. And a read/write/read surface scan from Hard Disk Sentinel reveled only that once sector now. Nothing else is showing sighs of failing, read/write heads, disk motor, magnetic integrity. It’s all fine. Just for what ever reason, a sector got damaged. The power on time for the drive is 707 days.
Anyways, any help is appreciated. Thanks.
2 sectors is nothing really to worry about. You could try running chkdsk to repair (hide) the bad sector(s), or that snake oil program, HDD regenerator. Neither will affect your data, but depending on the size of the drive and amount of files it could take some time.
gilly replied: 2 sectors is nothing really to worry about. You could try running chkdsk to repair (hide) the bad sector(s), or that snake oil program, HDD regenerator. Neither will affect your data, but depending on the size of the drive and amount of files it could take some time.
Ya I’m not worried about 2 sectors. I just wanted to force the drive to remap that sector without formating. I just couldn’t find any programs to do it. Thanks for the help, chkdsk did nothing, but I’ll give HDD regenerator a go. Hopefully that works, if not. Then I’ll probably just leave it.
Thanks again!!
If it’s your OS drive, then you need to force a dismount to lock the drive and run chkdsk on boot, but I am sure you are aware of that, you seem quite clued up. (chkdsk /r).
I used HDD regenerator on a 1TB drive just to see how long it would take, ended up at 27 hours but eventually did the trick.
Best of luck