Hard disk bad block bad sectors (II)

Se você detectar problemas de "bad block" (bad sector) use o utilitário de "Low Level Format" do fabricante do disco.

IBM (Hitachi)
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/utils.html

Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/index.htm

Fujitsu
http://www.fel.fujitsu.com/home/drivers.asp?L=en&CID=1

Samsung
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/index.htm

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp

Para aqueles que gostam de ler segue abaixo um texto interessante, sobre o assunto.

Como já disse anteriormente, tudo sobre Hard Disk esta em inglês e a maioria dos termos não tem uma tradução plausível, e corremos o risco de até mudarmos seu real significado.

Low level format utilities for the hard disk

Important drive information (servo, sector layout, and defect management, etc.) is stored in the low-level format at the factory. This information is designed to last the life of the drive and therefore it is not possible to low level the drive outside the factory. Although some drive manufactures and BIOS provided so-called "low level format utilities", they actually perform a write-read verify of the drive’s user data sectors, and do not actually perform a low-level format. In the event of a corrupted master boot record or boot block virus, use FDISK /MBR command to restore the master boot record. If you need to low level format your hard drive then check the drive manufacturer and download such an utility from its website.

Small FAQ (SAMSUNG)
Question

I am getting errors when trying to format a Samsung drive during high level formatting.

Is there a low level utility that I can download?
Answer: You cannot format the disk drive at low level.
The servo, sector layout and defect management information contained in the low level format is designed to last the life of the drive.

As such, this information cannot be overwritten outside of the factory.

But we will attach a file which makes a hdd the same status as that of when you purchase a hdd newly, that is, status of no data and status to be formatted newly.

IMPORTANT: YOU MUST BACK UP YOUR DATA BEFORE FORMATTING.

Eu espero ter dado aqui uma pequena contribuição para esclarecer o assunto e também colaborar para que vocês possam eventualmente resolver pequenos problemas em seus hard disk.

Gostaria de lembrar a todos que "A compra de um martelo de ótima qualidade não impedirá que se de uma martelada no dedo, muito menos a garanta que não teremos nossa unha estripada".

Escrito por Jose Pinto em 02/04/2007 as 17h58