HDD Regenerator question

[SilentSpartan]

I'm currently running HDD Regenerator on a drive of mine. I pulled it out of a toaster drive without knowing it was on. Now, Windows sees the drive but doesn't allow access to the data most likely due to physical damage.

 

My question while running it, it is showing a yellow 'D' (delays detected). I still have almost 38 hours before it completes. I can not find any documentation on what a yellow 'D' would mean. Any answer appreciated. Thanks!

[Murasaki]

Site for this tool says it http://www.dposoft.net/hdd.html

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Permanent delays mean that the hard drive has sectors with long access time. A drive with permanent delays is actually a failing drive and may cause data losses.

Never heard of this tool before though and no clue if its effective in what it does.

[porina]

If a drive has a problem reading data, it usually retries many times to try and get the data. I presume this is what they mean by a "delay". Not a good sign regardless. With suitable read-write cycles it is possible for modern drives to map them out of use.

 

38 hours remaining seems excessive for a roughly 2TB drive. Have to wonder what the software is doing. Some kind of surface refresh? That may be a read-write-read operation. First tries to get the data, write it back and read it again to make sure that sector is still good.