Then again, I wouldn't neccessarily trust the hardware I was attempting to install or restore to at this point.ĪTI cannot make a broken harddisk work, only replacement of the hdisk can get you a working hdisk again.

Formatting might have helped, and you might have been able to restore an image after this procedure. If an adequete number of sectors remain, performing a low level format might restore disk function, but again, the amount of trust you put in the drive's health and reliability should be weighed heavily.īased on your description, it's possible that the drive had failed to the point that it could not be read or written to correctly. In some cases, even available good sectors cannot be remapped successfully. This surplus is not unlimited and eventually a disk will fail when the disk surface itself becomes physically damaged due to normal read/write operations or other failure.

Disks do come with a bank of 'extra' sectors. Bad sectors occur normally during a disk's life. These values can often be used to determine a disk's overall health as well as its viability in the long term. Have you taken the time to evaluate its SMART values? These are usually expressed as trends. Reformatting does not neccessarily mean the drive is safe, nor should it be trusted with your data. When a drive fails to due to bad sectors, it should not be trusted again until its health is verified.

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