

This system has experienced problems accessing blocks on the second drive in the system.

This means that using the DLG tool and getting a perfect, clean bill of health from the tool may not provide an accurate assessment of the drive's health. Or it may not report some SMART attributes correctly ay all. However, it appears that DLG may sometimes only report any failing SMART information once the warranty failure threshold has been reached. This software can provide a number of hard drive tests - including a full surface scan, known as the Extended test - and also reports back drive SMART health information. if not than the PCB has crack joining's on data signal transmission edge of the SATA port and bettwen pcb.Western Digital provide the Data Life Guard Diagnostics software for both Windows and DOS boot. And I suggest change-ing the SATA cable of hdd. if you like win apps just try hdd tune on quick if it has many problems it will have red squares than you can stop testing. I suggest not using windows apps only dos and not over USB, just on pc mb controller.īad hdd's never sit at 21C/23 C they never go under 35C, never, that hdd seems to be in great shape, you may need to reset the smart because of the many errors, reseat the PCB on back of hdd and disable smart from bios if you can. It's for personal use on vintage stuff you already have on dvd's or backed-up. You will only squeeze some time before that disk fails again. "Recovering" a disk via HDAT2 only hides the problems and some people may think that the disk is reliable again. However try a smell of pcb and pcb clean before doing anything else, may have a failing part on the pcb. (if not seen on more modern controllers than dos checkdisk-it to save the error mess). on old hdd-s I just use a 486 or previous to save it. You can reset relocation table, after disabling smart, then format all with MHDD or HDAT2 (don't remember exactly).
