I ran chkdsk h: /f /r, it taken almost a day but discovered more bad sectors alongside whole second partition. The SMART info for that drive now looks this:
The current pending sectors increased significantly although chkdsk said that it replaced bad sectors.
I’m curious if this drive is really going to **bleep** or the situation settles at this point.
Just noticed the drive always even new taken quite long to connect and get ready (more than half a minute), much longer than another Mybook that I use concurrently. It might already be a sign on new disk this is a bad serie.
Then it’s a question if native low level disk diagnostics from WD has any usability if it finds no problem on so highly damaged drive, even after extensive test.
