Regenerating HDD, is it worth it?

[gilead8]

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

 

[mightymaxio]

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

 

[gilead8]

Thanks for the reply mightymaxio.

Ouch! Toasted Drive? So it means I just have to turn this off now? Will this damage the hard drive more?

Thanks again 😀

 

[mightymaxio]

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.

 

[gilead8]

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 HDat2 is pretty good you could try and use Vivard for even deeper cleaning than Hdat2

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.

 

[gilead8]

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