[Victoria 4.46b Full 224
Theodora Glime
Hello to all. I recently (about 1 month ago) bought a new HDD - WDC WD7500BPKT-75PK4T0 and put in my laptop instead of old one, so today i look at my SMART attributes table and Victoria 4.46b for Windows show me a these red marked attributes:
Hi get a copy of hard disk sentinel it will give you a report as soon as it starts. Check the smart data tab and post a screen shot of the smart data. The version of Victoria you are using is a beta program. Beta = unfinished software and may run errors.
I've found my Xbox360 HDD (250GB Hitachi) has six dodgy blocks (not actually bad, they just take longer to read than they should), including block 0. I've been having problems with my Xbox recently, which are probably related, so I want to mark these blocks as bad/unusable so that they won't be used anymore and see if that fixes my problems. Does anyone know how to do this? I scanned the HDD with HDDScan and I've attached screenshots of the results below.
@Jaclaz, It's rather tricky making backups of the Xbox HDD as it uses XFAT, so I have to use special apps to access it, all of which seems to have bugs and keep locking up (e.g. Xplorer360 locks up when trying to delete a folder, which USBXTAFGUI doesn't have any trouble with but did lock up when trying to copy/extract some folders to my PC HDD). I could probably make an IMG of the HDD but I'd rather have the individual files backed up so I can choose what to put back on the HDD. I've probably got most of it backed up already anyway, so it's not that important.
Because it uses XFAT I also have to use special apps to erase/format it and I'm not sure whether those apps would remap the bad sectors, unless that's something that's done at the drive-level irrespective of which app is used. Anyway, better if I can fix it without erasing/formatiing it
Yeah, it looks like I might have to, even though that's not really what I want to do. The thing that concerns me is that if I make a clone image and then mark the dodgy blocks as unusable with Victoria, when I go to restore the image won't it want to write to the same dodgy blocks or will it be forced to write somewhere else?
I've never made and restored a Xbox HDD image either, so obviously I'm a bit concerned in case it doesn't work as expected. At least if I had the individual files on my PC HDD I could restore them easily. In fact, it might have been better to copy the files over SMB whilst the HDD was still connected to the Xbox but now I've dismantled the casing to connect it to the PC I can't be bothered to put it all back together, copy the files, then dismantle it again to connect to the PC and fix the dodgy blocks
Yeah, that isn't going to happen I'll just have to take my chances with an image. Like I say, I've got copies of most of the games already anyway. I'll see if I can extract files from the image once it's finished, which might work a lot quicker than extracting them directly from the drive but I'll probably just restore the entire image once I've fixed the drive.
I can boot the MHDD ISO OK but then that doesn't seem to recognise any of my drives. It presents three interfaces (not the correct ones) and whichever one I select, when I press F2 to scan it says drive not ready.
At least if I had the individual files on my PC HDD I could restore them easily. In fact, it might have been better to copy the files over SMB whilst the HDD was still connected to the Xbox but now I've dismantled the casing to connect it to the PC I can't be bothered to put it all back together, copy the files, then dismantle it again to connect to the PC and fix the dodgy blocks
It looks like you know what you don't want to do, therefor implying you know what you do want to do. And you keep saying you already have most of it backed up. So I guess at this point you want to be on your own. OK, have fun and let us know if you are ever able to recover any of your data so someone else might eventually benefit from the knowledge. Have a nice day.
By the way, I'm not sure how dependable HDDScan is now, as I have another 2.5" 500GB drive which I use for PC stuff, which I've had in an e-SATA enclosure which it turns out has been causing problems. So I scanned that with HDDScan and it showed there were 6 less than perfect blocks, so I reformatted it to get those blocks marked and re-scanned it and it showed an orange block within seconds. So I stopped it and re-started the scan and repeated this a few times and it didn't show that block as being problematic after the first scan.
That is what basically tools like HDDregenerator do (whatever HDDregenerator does is seemingly additionally capable to "regenerate" also "bad" sectors, most probably only some "kinds" of "bad" sectors).
I'm not sure that's what's happening though (with all the blocks anyway) as I just took the Xbox 250GB HDD which I did a Verify scan on yesterday and when first starting it, it showed block 0 as dodgy, as it did yesterday, so if writing to it had fixed it I wouldn't have expected it to show as dodgy again today. I then restarted the test a few times and each time it identified block 0 as OK (
The first run also identified block 1024 as dodgy, which it also failed to do on subsequent runs until about the fifth and sixth time when it flagged it up again but it was OK again on the seventh, eighth, ninth.
Anyway, I'll run it through Victoria 4.46b, which has loaded albeit with "unknown error or driver not exist" followed by "PORTTALK error. Invalid Driver Handle" followed by "Porttalk driver not installed. Available only API Access" (v43 does the same) but I tested the Get SMART function and that worked so hopefully the other functions will. I'm not sure which settings I need to use though. On the Test page it has four options, Ignore, Remap, Erase or Restore. Clearly I don't want to use Erase but which should I use? It has an option to do a Buttrefly scan as well but I don't like the sound of that
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