65537 bad sectors on my 320Gb usb drive. Is it really dead?
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Mar 15, 20262300 viewsConfidence Score0%
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After 222 days of usage my external usb drive's S.M.A.R.T. system warned about having too many bad sectors on the disk (65537 reallocated sectors). I tested it with and no bad block were found. I re-partitioned and re-formatted drive. It seems to work just fine, but my Fedora is still complaining a…
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badblocks -svw
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Fix for: 65537 bad sectors on my 320Gb usb drive. Is it really dead?
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badblocks can't find bad blocks because they are hidden by the disks' firmware. If a disk has so many bad sectors in such a short time, there is something seriously wrong. No I wouldn't trust this disk a second more.
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