I got pretty new Toshiba 500GB HDD as 2nd HDD(just for data) in my ThinkPad T400. Seller told me, that he just replaced this HDD with SSD in his new laptop. After about month of using I tested this HDD with HDTune an I was unpleasantly surprised. It has 2 bad sectors.
After some time of using i faced problems with playing some films on this HDD, one game crashes sometimes, etc.
So I tried chkdsk /r. But it stucked. It said that there is not enough space to remap. But I have 360GB free and just 140GB used.
Than I get soft called HDD Regenerator. It wants to set compatibility IDE mode. So i done it in BIOS and started Regenerator from bootable USB. It was checking my disk and in about 30% it found bad sector and started to regenerate it. After some time, red color messages has been shown.
Drive is not ready!and
Set-up **BIOS** to compatibility IDE mode.It is quite strange that there was set up BIOS. And it is strange that it wants to set up when it already is set up. Can it be problem in my SATA driver? I looked in device manager and there was AHCI controller.
Please give me a hint what to do and please don't everybody write that I should backup data and buy new HDD. I know it's best solution but it's not very easy to buy new HDD when you know that you got this just for about 3 months..
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There's only so many "spares" on a drive to remap bad sectors to, and you've run out (they have nothing to do with the capacity shown for the drive, they are spare sectors specifically for remapping bad ones to).
Once you run out of spares, any future blocks that go bad will just be "bad" forever.
He sold you a failing drive (intentionally or not).
3The truthfully problem is software you are using not supported for your HDD, it's only use to repair the IDE drive so won't recognize it. Try to make your HDD into IDE Compatible in BIOS if it's not available try to update your BIOS from manufacture website. If you can remove your HDD try to using converter kit that make your HDD like an IDE not a SATA Drive, if your computer not support this try another computer (PC or Notebook). I usually use Hiren's Boot CD to repair my HDD, a lot of tool you can use to repair your HDD, just boot your computer on CD Rom and the tool menu will appear. If your HDD is not to much bad on it, i usually used HDD Regenerator & DeRevitalized its work just fine and didn't loose my data, after that you can copy your data to another source and format your HDD. If the bad sector in your HDD is to heavy you need to use another tool which more complicated. Just be patient with the process till it's finished don't interrupt it, it's can damage your HDD ! GoodLuck
1either use mhdd or pay for spinrite
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