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by Mike1949
23 May 2018, 01:54
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: damaged WD5000 ext HDD
Replies: 2
Views: 2384

Re: damaged WD5000 ext HDD

Many thanks for feedback cgr. I'm not a IT geek, so assume "CRC" error you refer to is cyclical redundancy. I have read about bad sectors (wiki) and SMART it seems possible to recover by remap and zero write to whole drive or shifting to remaining spare (good) sectors as you mentioned possible. I ...
by Mike1949
20 May 2018, 05:20
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: damaged WD5000 ext HDD
Replies: 2
Views: 2384

damaged WD5000 ext HDD

Hi all, new to CGS and forums. Long story , have been at this on and off for a while now. -in retrospect..big mistake... i exchanged manually the 1 Tb HDD of my WD for a 500G one, put the 1tb into a security DVDR. didnt do anything special, just undid casings, handled carefully, exchanged ,plug-n ...