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What is the meaning of scan results?

April 26, 2017results scan

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What is the meaning of scan results?

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Normally, you should not get brown and red blocks. If you have some, see Q above (about erase delays). If you have blocks marked as a letter (“A”, “x”, “S”, “!” and so on) — those are bad blocks. If there is more than 20% of surface is covered with bad blocks, then it is a head crash. If your hard drive is 100% filled by bad blocks — then it is either a head crash, PCB damage or firmware issue. None of these failures are fixable with free software.

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Normally, you should not get brown and red blocks. If you have some, see Q above (about erase delays). If you have blocks marked as a letter (“A”, “x”, “S”, “!” and so on) — those are bad blocks. If there is more than 20% of surface is covered with bad blocks, then it is a head crash. If your hard drive is 100% filled by bad blocks — then it is either a head crash, pcb damage or firmware issue. None of these failures are fixable with free software.Q: While scanning a drive with MHDD I see letter W sometimes.A: You are scanning with EraseDelays turned on, and W is appearing where MHDD erased a block of 255 sectors.Q: While scanning a drive I see blue block.A: You are scanning with Remap option turned ON and a remap attempt has just happened there.