HD problem

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
1

I put the new HD in a USB enclosure to run WD’s lifeguard tools on it (the HD is not meant to be in a computer but a NAS).

The DLGDIAG program confuses me by saying:

SMART Status: PASS
Test Result: FAIL
Test Error Code: 08-Too many bad sectors detected.

But this means the drive is bad, right?

2

This means the drive needs to be replaced

3

Can it REALLY BE that WD’s DLG program expets the drive to be formatted first???

When I tried the full test the program gave up and said too many errors.

Then I asked Windows to do a full format (not just a quick format), which took a day… then i tried DLG’s program again and so far its reported no errors (still has 4 and a half hour to go so i suppose there is still time)

But that would be really stupid if it requires the drive to be formatted, it supposed to be a test of the drive not the a filesystem.

4

Strange indeed!