Hi all,
I’d just like a few thoughts on this please. I have a Samsung F3 HDD. I uploaded some photos from my camera last weekend and I’ve been sorting through them - categorising and labelling them etc. When opening one photo, it was crashing the program I was using (Faststone Image Viewer). Except for one occasion, I could end the task and restart the computer. The third time this happened, I ran ESTool – Samsung’s HDD Diagnostic program. The result:
It also recommended erasing the HDD. That was fine as I was intending to wipe the drive and send it back for replacement anyway. This was the result of a Low Level Format:
Now, since I wasn’t convinced that the drive was properly erased following the above procedure, I started WinPE and ran Diskpart and used the ‘Clean all’ command. The two partitions were removed during this process (not during the Low Level Format incidentally). With Seagate taking over the RMA’s for Samsung I had to run SeaTools and list the error code. The result: Pass. Strange huh? So I ran ESTool again and the result this time:
What the hell is going on? Has Diskpart resolved the problem? Would you be concerned about using the HDD again? The last thing I want to do is start using it and a) lose data and b) be unable to wipe the drive if it actually dies next time. Could a corrupted file cause ESTools to flag up bad sectors? (Personally I doubt it since it doesn't know what data should be there, just whether it's readable) To me, since they occur so soon into the test, it’s almost as though it's being flagged up due to the partition. It seems a coincidence that as soon as it’s removed, it’s ok again...


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