Re: How to deal with defect block

Nathan Stratton Treadway <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 13:35:13 +0200, bege wrote:
> But the self-test is still terminated with the message of a read
> error and the current pending sector count is still 1.
> 
> >-------- Original Nachricht/Message ---------
> >Betreff/Subject: *Re: [smartmontools-support] How to deal with
> >defect block*
> >Datum/Date: *Montag, 21. Juli 2014 19:44:32*bege wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The output (attached) of nfi.exe is "file 8 on drive C" and
> >>instead of a file path it says "Bad Cluster List ($BadClus)"
> >>
> >
> >Bad sector was already detected by NTFS and added to bad cluster
> >list. NTFS will not reuse it.

As other messages in this thread indicate you already figured out, you
do need to do some sort of write to that sector to get the firmware to
remap it and thus clear the Pending Sector count (and allow the SMART
self tests to complete without error).

The fact that this sector is already listed in the bad cluster list just
means you can go ahead and overwrite it without worring at all about
what file you would be corrupting in the process (i.e. it tells you that
sector is not part of any actual NTFS file).

							Nathan


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