I “inherited” this hard drive from a friend’s deceased ex. It was part of a four-drive RAID setup. The other three drives of the same model work fine for dumping data onto but this one has grave problems. Windows Disk Management sees it there but says it needs to be initialized. When I tell it to go ahead and initialize it eventually fails with an unspecified I/O error. I tried monkeying with it with Easus Partition Master and Aomei but they just made it worse and now those apps won’t even recognize it. One scan indicated every sector was bad. (How is that possible?) Should I just quit wasting my time on it or is there some hope? I’m not planning to use it for anything mission critical but it would be nice to have another free 500GB of storage. I don’t care how slow it is since backup runs unattended while I do something else. Thanks.
Get Seatools and try a drive wipe to resurrect the old disk
Thanks. In Seatools, simple overwrite, the only wipe that the drive will support, failed. The short self test also aborted.
looks like the disk has bitten the dust
Agreed.
if you want get into a NAS use server class disks which have lower overall failure rates
Thanks.
If every sector is bad and even partition tools can’t recognize it, the drive is likely beyond repair. You could try a low-level format or a disk repair tool, but it’s probably unreliable for backup. For peace of mind, stick with a reliable drive instead.
