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Solution: Use WD Utilities to erase and reformat. Disk Utility can't format something that is preformatted for windows.

When I try to erase the drive in disk utility with reformatting to MAC Extended Journaled, this is what happens. Any advice?

I've been a long time Mac user, but none of this seems very exciting. I want to see a page up/page down button on their laptops, an end page button, and function keys. A number keypad on laptops would be nice for those who work in stocks or accounting. and PLEASE, give us a 17" retina laptop...

No worries. Thanks for trying to help anyway.

"I'm using a Mac."

I want to identify any corrupt files on my external drive that has some new bad sectors. Is there a suggested software that can do this? I'm using a Mac. Thanks! PS: Data is backed up to a cloud service. I want to know if any data on my drive is corrupted. If it's all fine, I'll just transfer...

Since your system does backups every night, are they backing up to another drive, or to a cloud service? What happens when in a case like mine, sectors go bad on drive 1...when you back up to drive 2, does it erase formerly written data on drive 2 from the bad sector on drive 1? (hope that makes...

So no recommendation in your opinion?

It says 136 of the bad blocks are in the EFI. 4 are in the big partition for data storage. Again, there is no way to obtain a list of which files specifically are on those bad sectors and essentially dead? I want to make sure I get them from Backblaze. Are any external harddrive companies more...

Ok, the software I'm using to read the SMART status is DiskDrill. According to their website, they mark soft bad sectors, meaning software miscommunication/issues? Does that still mean the disk is toast, or is it safe to wipe it clean and repair it by zeroing everything on the drive? Then reload...

Ok, is there any way to program a new drive to move good data to safe sectors when a sector goes bad? Are you supposed to replace a drive when even 1 sector suddenly goes bad?

Thanks USAFRet - I have it backed up to Backblaze last week when all was seemingly well (I think), so I'm not concerned about that, but I would like to know which files are affected so I can ensure I get them back. I can select a backup copy from Backblaze from 2 weeks ago to be sure I don't...

Are there any programs that can show me what files might be inaccessible and stored on those bad blocks?

I have a 3 tb external HD by WD, which is about 3 years old and has always been kept at a desk. It currently has 1.6~ tbs of data on it. I regularly run SMART checks, at least once a week, with DiskDrill. When backing up the drive to BackBlaze tonight, I had the slightest scape sound. My eyes...