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Miniscribe HDD too many bad blocks
Posted by: tony359 on 2023-01-06 15:33:02 HI there, I have a dying miniscribe - probably not worth of resuscitating but I'd love to try. The stepper seems fine, I put some lubricant on the bearing as usual! However it would misbehave badly when trying to run anything or re-install the OS. I managed to run Apple Personal Diagnostic and it failed the seek test. So I ran LIDO, it properly formatted it ok but when I started a verification scan, it started finding bad block. At 60 it told me it didn't have enough space to re-allocate it. How can I tell the drive "disable the bad block"? I'd imagine those bad blocks will be coming up all the time but I'd like to try! Any other software I could try? Thanks!
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