Spinrite 6.0

[jason69uk]

I attached a FAT32 drive to scan with spinrite and the drive was so badly messed up it couldnt repair and was slowing the pc down loads.

I then took out the drive and scanned the master and after scanning it was fine but when i pressed esc after the scan it froze and has never done this b4..

how come it froze??

It says on the S.M.A.R.T:

temp 35 0C, thru 70% of the scan it says this:
ecc corrected - error count: 1,486,581---minimum:6,052----error rate: 26,623-----maximum:46,415.


seek errors: 75,100--minimum:972----error rate: 1,281

is this a sign of a healthy or unhealthy drive or what??

Everytime i do the same scan though on the same drive it logs the same amount of errors.

error count: minimum: error rate: maximum:
ecc corrected 1,486,581 6,052 26,623 46,415
realloc events
seek errrors 75,100 972 1,281
recal retries
cabling errors
uncorrectable
write errors

Is this normal and it wld usually do this on any other hard drive??

[reboot]

error count: 1,486,581
seek errors: 75,100
error rate: 1,281
What do you think?

[jason69uk]

I'm not sure mate..

Isit ok??

It doesnt look ok by the error count though but at the bottom after the test it said unrecoverable - 0 so im assuming its recovered all the errors..i dunno how it got that many errors though..

Have i got the wrong end of the stick here or something? isit not how many errors are on the drive??

whats the most normal errors to be on a drive??

[jason69uk]

Everytime i do the same scan though on the same drive it logs the same amount of errors.

error count: minimum: error rate: maximum:
ecc corrected 1,486,581 6,052 26,623 46,415
realloc events
seek errrors 75,100 972 1,281
recal retries
cabling errors
uncorrectable
write errors

Is this normal and it wld usually do this on any other hard drive??

[reboot]

If the disk was originally set up with some imaging software, then it's going to report errors. The FAT is managed differently.
If it was originally set up as FAT32 and converted to NTFS, it shows different errors.
If it was originally set up the right way (fdisk/ntfs), you get no errors.

[jason69uk]

I done a scan on a HDD that is new about 6 weeks old its about the 10th time using it but i partitioned it..it is NTFS

with all this:

error count: minimum: error rate: maximum:
ecc corrected xxxx xxx xxx xxx
realloc events
seek errrors 75,100 972 1,281
recal retries
cabling errors
uncorrectable
write errors

it still comes up with those numbers but less numbers..do these nmbers not mean the amount of errors though on the hard drive?? isit just errors the program is told to scan the drive in??

i peronsally dont see howv i could have any errors on it i mean its only been used about 10 times ok i its been in cupboard for ages but it was in a plastic case.

What r those results telling me??

Sorry i forgot to put in..this drive i was talking about the NTFS kinda new one was partitioned and had been imaged from 2 other drives to 2 partitions on this drive. I then found a bit on it that was 48 GB where i had just cut files to from the C: drive.. Would this explain why it found errors on it??

[reboot]

Yup. It was not prepared as a normal drive, using fdisk. It was imaged from another source, so spinrite gives errors.

[jason69uk]

thanks very much..

this wont shorten the life of the drive though will it?

i know smart is enabled now but how do i get into S.M.A.R.T to view abolsutely everything about how many errors the drive has on it etc?

[reboot]

Shouldn't hurt the drive.
Smart can't read what spinrite can, so it's not going to happen.
Smart will simply note if anything MORE generates an error, from the point you enabled it.

[jason69uk]

I have just run a drive through spinrite over night on level 4, defragged it..it looks fine now.

There is one file that when i try to open it, it says file maybe corrupted or something :S.

This file is 5 MB big and half an hour long and only plays the music at the beginning its an episode by the way a divx one.

Anyway when i go to double click it, it says file corrupted or something with a yellow warning..

How do i sort this??

[reboot]

Try something like DivFix (divxfix?). You could also try re-encoding it in virtualdub.