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When I am watching a video or copying files, it stops working and gives me I/O error. Some files are fine, but other files are broken. I have done a format on the hdd, but I'm not sure how to fix this issue. Usually use the Windows tool to check errors and repair drive but that does not seem to work here.

 

My friend said, that I can proabably move the bad sectors to a different partition, and use the healthy partition, but is that the correct way to do it?

 

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Sorry, but the drive's dying. It should be able to correct for bad sectors by transparently remapping them to space reserved for that purpose, but either it's out of spare sectors or it's failing faster than it can correct itself. Even if you 'partition around' the bad sectors, you're only staving off the inevitable.

 

Lifeboat the important data to another drive as soon as possible, then replace that drive with a new one.

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16 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Sorry, but the drive's dying. It should be able to correct for bad sectors by transparently remapping them to space reserved for that purpose, but either it's out of spare sectors or it's failing faster than it can correct itself. Even if you 'partition around' the bad sectors, you're only staving off the inevitable.

 

Lifeboat the important data to another drive as soon as possible, then replace that drive with a new one.

I see, I usually used this hdd as a NAS by mounting it to raspi. Is there a better way to do a NAS than what I am doing? If im going to buy a new HDD, what should I get?

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4 hours ago, Mr.Stork said:

When I am watching a video or copying files, it stops working and gives me I/O error. Some files are fine, but other files are broken. I have done a format on the hdd, but I'm not sure how to fix this issue. Usually use the Windows tool to check errors and repair drive but that does not seem to work here.

 

My friend said, that I can proabably move the bad sectors to a different partition, and use the healthy partition, but is that the correct way to do it?

 

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You can also try a full format, or do a write scan using a program like victoria. If you can get those 304 (130 in hex) pending sectors to reallocate, you could keep using this drive for non important data, etc.

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3 hours ago, Mr.Stork said:

My friend said, that I can proabably move the bad sectors to a different partition, and use the healthy partition, but is that the correct way to do it?

This is how you would do it on much older drives, that didn't support sector reallocation (before 1997 i believe?). With modern drives, this isn't an ideal way to do it, especially on a smr drive like this one.

3 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

but either it's out of spare sectors

The reallocated sector attribute will fail before this happens. Its currently at 78/100 with a threshold of 36. 

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It's dead, backup and replace, if you can, buy CRM one.

 

To mamy realocated sectors on this one, to trust it. 

   
 
 
 
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My friend said, that I can proabably move the bad sectors to a different partition, and use the healthy partition, but is that the correct way to do it?

Your friend is wrong, the correct way to treat any failed sectors is to toss the drive and get another one.

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