Regenerating HDD, is it worth it?

gilead8

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Hello,

I have 2pcs 80gb IDE Hard Drive: HD A and HD B, originally in Raid 1 in PC A, then I tried to distribute it to 2 PC.

> PC A where both HD A and HD B was previously in Raid 1.

> PC B where I installed HD B and got an error (maybe it was previously in Raid 1 and didn't do anything to break the mirror) I tried to install Win7 but it takes years to just process it and then after sometime, it shows the dreaded "S.M.A.R.T. status bad backup and replace error."

So I searched and tried a lot of solutions.

At one point, I tried to "Active Kill Disk" both drives, and took almost 3 hrs each Drive. Then I installed them back on PC A. But I think I did something wrong after that, I tried to Raid 1 thru windows disk management again by converting both drives into Dynamic Disks. Then after I shutdown, It won't boot anymore unless I remove HD B. It's going crazy and really confusing just to be able to use those drives once again.

Then now I tried another solution. HDAT2 4.53. Currently I'm stuck with it. I tried it cause the description says: "the main function is testing and repair (regenerates) bad sectors for detected devices. A freeware alternative of HDD Regenerator."

Anyways, it's been running for one day straight and my Pass 1 is only at 10% [8.61GB]



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Question is, is this normal? And should I continue this regeneration? 10% per Day??

I can see alot of Red B, which I think doesn't show a good sign.

And if incase I should stop this, is this gonna hurt my HDD more?

I just pursued bec. I wanna try reviving/regenerating a HDD. Just for experimenting 😀

Thanks a lot in Advance for the Help :)
 
Solution
That looks like a toasted drive. 1/126795 errors with 0 fixable errors. Thats what WRWR means. Its supposed to write 0000000 instead of the corrupted bits. I would discontinue if i were you. Although HDat2 is pretty good you could try and use Vivard for even deeper cleaning than Hdat2
That looks like a toasted drive. 1/126795 errors with 0 fixable errors. Thats what WRWR means. Its supposed to write 0000000 instead of the corrupted bits. I would discontinue if i were you. Although HDat2 is pretty good you could try and use Vivard for even deeper cleaning than Hdat2
 
Solution
It wont damage the hard drive but once its that far done theres really not much you can do to fix the hard drive errors anymore. I would just turn it off instead of wasting electricity. Although you may still be able to recover data off it using different utilities if you still need the data.
 


So even if I use Vivard on this drive, there's nothing to gain anymore?

Okay, okay. Thanks a lot for the help. I'm going to turn this off now. :)