Hello,
One of my hard drives, a WD Green 4 TB, has developed bad sectors. I am using it for archiving movies and photos. I do not care about recovering the data, I want to flag these sectors as bad and risk using the HD a bit longer.
The symptoms are that some movies just hang, and only after a timeout of about a minute can the viewing program (ZoomPlayer) be killed. Usually when there are logical errors on the file, like it being corrupted or not finished, the movie just stops, but here it is like the OS is timing out trying to access adisk sector.
I ran Macrorit Disk scanner and apparently it flagged some sectors as "bad". I did not check the SMART status before the operation, after the scan CrystalDiskInfo shows 0x874 "Uncorrectable Sector Count", with a "Current Pending Sector Count" of 0x873.
So now I presume that the bad sectors are flagged as such and the OS will not try and access them? Except these bad sectors are still part of the movie files, and the movie player still hands on them as it did before. So they are not flagged as "unreadable"? I was thinking of testing all the movies, and moving all the bad ones into a directory named something like "_BAD". But this would be rather time consuming, with the long timeouts on each file. If I erase the files, will the OS try and reuse the bad sectors? Or does the flagging as "bad" only work for writing? So if I erase the files nothing will read nor written on those sectors any longer?
(yes, I understand there is a strong possibility that more and more sectors will become bad, no point in starting this discussion here)
One of my hard drives, a WD Green 4 TB, has developed bad sectors. I am using it for archiving movies and photos. I do not care about recovering the data, I want to flag these sectors as bad and risk using the HD a bit longer.
The symptoms are that some movies just hang, and only after a timeout of about a minute can the viewing program (ZoomPlayer) be killed. Usually when there are logical errors on the file, like it being corrupted or not finished, the movie just stops, but here it is like the OS is timing out trying to access adisk sector.
I ran Macrorit Disk scanner and apparently it flagged some sectors as "bad". I did not check the SMART status before the operation, after the scan CrystalDiskInfo shows 0x874 "Uncorrectable Sector Count", with a "Current Pending Sector Count" of 0x873.
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CrystalDiskInfo 7.5.0 (C) 2008-2017 hiyohiyo
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OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 16299] (x64)
Date : 2017/12/20 21:44:17
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Model : WDC WD40EZRX-22SPEB0
Firmware : 80.00A80
Serial Number : WD-WCC4E1ZRYURT
Disk Size : 4000,7 GB (8,4/137,4/4000,7/4000,7)
Buffer Size : Unknown
Queue Depth : 32
# of Sectors : 7814037168
Rotation Rate : 5400 RPM
Interface : Serial ATA
Major Version : ACS-2
Minor Version : ----
Transfer Mode : SATA/600 | SATA/600
Power On Hours : 444 hours
Power On Count : 167 count
Temperature : 34 C (93 F)
Health Status : Caution
Features : S.M.A.R.T., 48bit LBA, NCQ
APM Level : ----
AAM Level : ----
Drive Letter : T:
-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 176 157 _51 000000008980 Read Error Rate
03 200 174 _21 000000001B47 Spin-Up Time
04 100 100 __0 0000000000A7 Start/Stop Count
05 200 200 140 000000000000 Reallocated Sectors Count
07 200 200 __0 000000000000 Seek Error Rate
09 100 100 __0 0000000001BC Power-On Hours
0A 100 100 __0 000000000000 Spin Retry Count
0B 100 100 __0 000000000000 Recalibration Retries
0C 100 100 __0 0000000000A7 Power Cycle Count
C0 200 200 __0 000000000087 Power-off Retract Count
C1 200 200 __0 000000000863 Load/Unload Cycle Count
C2 118 103 __0 000000000022 Temperature
C4 200 200 __0 000000000000 Reallocation Event Count
C5 197 197 __0 000000000873 Current Pending Sector Count
C6 197 197 __0 000000000874 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 200 200 __0 000000000001 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
C8 122 122 __0 000000007ACA Write Error RateSo now I presume that the bad sectors are flagged as such and the OS will not try and access them? Except these bad sectors are still part of the movie files, and the movie player still hands on them as it did before. So they are not flagged as "unreadable"? I was thinking of testing all the movies, and moving all the bad ones into a directory named something like "_BAD". But this would be rather time consuming, with the long timeouts on each file. If I erase the files, will the OS try and reuse the bad sectors? Or does the flagging as "bad" only work for writing? So if I erase the files nothing will read nor written on those sectors any longer?
(yes, I understand there is a strong possibility that more and more sectors will become bad, no point in starting this discussion here)
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