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I have 5 HDD's, 3 of which are SATA, and dynamic.
Recently, I had some errors with my largest one, so I moved all the files off of it.
I also found out it has or had a bad block, due to it showing up in my event viewer.
Ran chkdsk, it replaced some bad clusters, but it still showed up in the viewer.
I deleted the volume, and disconnected it, so it sat unused for a number of days.
Yesterday evening, I reconnected it, and put it through a full format, which ran overnight.....it took quite a bit of time for the format to run.
Checking my event viewer this morning, the HDD still showed up there, telling me it still has a bad block/errors.
I deleted the volume, then decided to change it to basic, and give it a quick format.
After that was done, in my disk management, the HDD no longer shows up as "Healthy(At Risk)", or "Online(Errors)".
That doesn't mean that I'm entirely convinced, but after a reboot, it hasn't shown up in my viewer.....yet.
Sorry for the long winded post, I was trying to cover as many of the bases as possible.
Another one of my SATA HDD's is also showing up "Healthy(At Risk)" and "Online(Errors)", but it has plenty of files on it which I don't want to lose, so I was thinking that I would change it from dynamic to basic.
I don't use any RAID, and my 2 HDD's that are IDE and basic haven't given me any problems to date.....knock on wood.
Maybe its a solution, maybe not, although I think its the latter.
The HDD is done, kaput, gave up the ghost............ah well.