Question HDD surface test confusion ?

[Karcen]

I am rather confused by the results from the surface test done by eraseus. I ran it on my hdd and fir most of the disk the sectors were all good then at around the 50% mark they all turned bad. Now the drive is 8 tb abd I am using around 3tb. I have experienced no issues from the hdd and only did the test because a cloning failed due to a bad sector. I did the windows error check on the disk and it said no errors. I haven't run chkdsk yet. Is the surface test just saying the empty sectors are bad?

 

[USAFRet]

I am rather confused by the results from the surface test done by eraseus. I ran it on my hdd and fir most of the disk the sectors were all good then at around the 50% mark they all turned bad. Now the drive is 8 tb abd I am using around 3tb. I have experienced no issues from the hdd and only did the test because a cloning failed due to a bad sector. I did the windows error check on the disk and it said no errors. I haven't run chkdsk yet. Is the surface test just saying the empty sectors are bad?

Is the data backed up elsewhere?
Is the drive still under warranty?

A read fail during a clone process indicates a badly failing source drive.
It happens.

And the more you test and thrash the drive, the worse it will get.

 

[Karcen]

Is the data backed up elsewhere?
Is the drive still under warranty?

A read fail during a clone process indicates a badly failing source drive.
It happens.

And the more you test and thrash the drive, the worse it will get.

I was doing this to back up the drive. The cloner I was using aomei told me I had a bad sector though not where it was. The source drive seems to be working perfectly normal

 

[USAFRet]

I was doing this to back up the drive. The cloner I was using aomei told me I had a bad sector though not were it was.

"where" is irrelevant.

A cloning tool that encounters bad sectors WILL fail, and stop.

Is this the OS drive?

 

[USAFRet]

I was doing this to back up the drive.

Backups are what you do before things go bad.

 

[Karcen]

"where" is irrelevant.

A cloning tool that encounters bad sectors WILL fail, and stop.

Is this the OS drive?

No it is just fir file storage surface test says the ssd fir os is fine . Though it always says the external hdd I was cloning to is nothing but bad sectors

 

[Karcen]

Backups are what you do before things go bad.

That was what I was trying to do back up just on case as nothing in day to day use seemed to saybthe drive is dying.

 

[USAFRet]

No it is just fir file storage surface test says the ssd fir os is fine . Though it always says the external hdd I was cloning to is nothing but bad sectors

So stop trying to "clone", and just start copying files from this dying drive to elsewhere.

Don't grab all of it at once...just grab parts of it to copy.

 

[Karcen]

So stop trying to "clone", and just start copying files from this dying drive to elsewhere.

Don't grab all of it at once...just grab parts of it to copy.

I plan to do that but it is odd I ran the surface test and the bad sectors weren't scattered about just after most of the test they were all bad. Windows error checking says there is nothing wrong

 

[USAFRet]

I plan to do that but it is odd I ran the surface test and the bad sectors weren't scattered about just after most of the test they were all bad. Windows error checking says there is nothing wrong

The more you mess with the drive, the worse it will get.

Save your data first.

 

[Karcen]

So stop trying to "clone", and just start copying files from this dying drive to elsewhere.

Don't grab all of it at once...just grab parts of it to copy.

Could this because I was cloning a bigger drive to a smaller one (should be big enough fir the used data)

 

[Karcen]

I got aomei error 34 if that says anything

 

[USAFRet]

Could this because I was cloning a bigger drive to a smaller one (should be big enough fir the used data)

No.

Current clone tools only work with the data consumed space, not the physical drive space.

 

[USAFRet]

I got aomei error 34 if that says anything

So in your copious research, what does Error 34 mean in the Acronis world?

And have you started copying, not 'cloning', this data off to some other drive?
If not, why not?

 

[Karcen]

So in your copious research, what does Error 34 mean in the Acronis world?

And have you started copying, not 'cloning', this data off to some other drive?
If not, why not?

I dont know exactly aomei forums the program I was using says it means I had a write error not read error or that there are bad sectors on the target.

And not yet this was my attempt to save it as I haven't really had the spare cash for a new hdd or voukd service fir sevral tb of files

 

[Karcen]

Do you have advice for an affordable cloud storage solution

 

[USAFRet]

I dont know exactly aomei forums the program I was using says it means I had a write error not read error or that there are bad sectors on the target.

And not yet this was my attempt to save it as I haven't really had the spare cash for a new hdd or voukd service fir sevral tb of files

Well then...your unknown target drive may be failing.
Or both of them.

Take them both offline, until such time as you can get a known good target drive to try to copy to.
Stop with trhe 'clone' thing.

 

[Karcen]

Well then...your unknown target drive may be failing.
Or both of them.

Take them both offline, until such time as you can get a known good target drive to try to copy to.
Stop with trhe 'clone' thing.

It is an external hdd https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07VS8QCXC?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

And surface test says it is all bad se tors despite being empty

As for storage any recommended services cloud will be simpler

Also okay yeah realized the clone thing was a dumb idea for it

 

[Karcen]

Little update git hone did a chkdsk 0 bad sectors backing up data to a cloud service for now.

 

[fzabkar]

Can you show us a SMART report with CrystalDiskInfo or GSmartControl?

I suspect the drive may have become unresponsive during the surface scan, after which every sector would appear bad.