Hard drive with damaged clusters Solved

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Hello,
So I have a hard drive with damaged sectors (after running a scan with HD Tune in normal mode, not in quick mode) and it found damaged sectors (1.8% of the hard drive is damaged). So I did a low-level format with Drive Fitness (since it's a Hitachi hard drive) and the formatting took about 36 hours, but I feel like nothing has changed according to HD Tune; there are still damaged sectors. Should I do another low-level format?
Here are screenshots of the scans with HD Tune:

Before:
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2849/hdtuneerrorscanhitachihx.png
After:
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/9846/hdtuneerrorscanhitachih.png

Thanks for the reply

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rafit jad kuldinger · Accepted Answer

Well, let's explain something:
All hard drives, even out of the factory, have damaged clusters...

And this is not a sign of imminent failure...

A simple checkdisk via Windows will render the damaged clusters inoperable....

Moreover, low-level formatting is useless... the clusters are physically damaged.

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Why do something simply when you can do it complicated?

le druide · Answer

Hi,

just a personal opinion... A hard drive with damaged clusters won’t stay functional for long. Little by little it will deteriorate and you will lose your precious data.

Change your drive while there’s still time...
--

the druid without the potion.

fif15 · Answer

Hi,   buy another HDD.

fonfonse · Answer

Hello
thanks for the reply, I wanted to use the hard drive until the end lol just to transport data that is not dear to me (I won't put my photos in there) it will just be to transport server files or others, and normally a low-level format excludes defective sectors, right?
Thanks

le druide · Answer

even a low-level formatting doesn't always fix a hard drive.  36 hours for nothing when you can get a new hard drive for a few €. --  the druid without the potion.

fonfonse · Answer

Yes, I know I already have a new one (360 GB), but it was just to see because if I could remove the bad sectors, the hard drive could have been useful when I want to transfer files to my friend simply (it prevents him from messing up my hard drive)
but well, problem solved, I think. Thank you :) and good evening.

le druide · Answer

the dead clusters stay where they are, the only thing you can still do that might recover part of your hard drive is to create a partition to isolate the damaged area.
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the druid without the potion.

fonfonse · Answer

Hello
this is what I did, I created a 140 GB partition and left the rest aside (I'm losing about 10 GB) on a 160, it's still okay, the loss isn't too huge
I'm responding a bit, actually quite a lot, late but I haven't had much time lately
Thank you

blablabla · Answer

Clean the Drive, defragment. Check for errors and backup... it's going to take a while...

junior_205 · Answer

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