surface scan

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  1. Netslands95

    [SOLVED] Why the difference in HDD surface scans?

    I have had two Toshiba HDWD130 hard drives in my PC for two years. I ran a victoria surface scan for both of them yesterday, and the result is horrible, but when I connect them to an external hdd docking device, they suddenly returned to normal. When connected to motherboard When connected to...
  2. O

    [SOLVED] Surface scan of Mac mini hard drive using linux badblocks?

    I am not a Mac person, yet I was asked to fix a Mac Mini. It starts the boot process but eventually reports that there was an error in the boot process and reboots. It was reported that the unit was dropped. I suspect the hard drive has bad blocks. I removed the hard drive and made it into...