twolazy
Veteran Member
So I am having a weird situation going on... I recently pulled out my old ST-225. I spun it up now and then ever year just to keep the heads from sticking.
Anywho... So when I went to try to read the data, the drive refused to allow me to even see the fat table. So figuring whatever data was gone, I LL formatted it a few times. Now here's where it gets interesting...
So after 2nd and 3rd format, the drive showed a bunch of bad sectors, around 200kb worth. So I pulled out spinrite and did a full scan. Each time I ran the scan it showed a few new bad sectors. Growing frustrated I formatted it again. Now its showing a weird behavior. I'll run spinrite and have it repair bad sectors. The drive usually will fix EVERY sector. Then running norton speedisk, I'll run a scan , and indeed it finds 0 bad sectors till I reboot. After reboot it randomly finds bad sectors, yet spinrite will not find them usually. I'm scratching my head here. I don't understand how the sectors are repaired, then randomly go bad again.
Anyone have any advice? It almost seems random. Usually a reboot makes them come back, sometimes the drive works great till I power down after parking the head. Are the sectors perhaps marginal? Perhaps there is dust in the drive?
Anywho... So when I went to try to read the data, the drive refused to allow me to even see the fat table. So figuring whatever data was gone, I LL formatted it a few times. Now here's where it gets interesting...
So after 2nd and 3rd format, the drive showed a bunch of bad sectors, around 200kb worth. So I pulled out spinrite and did a full scan. Each time I ran the scan it showed a few new bad sectors. Growing frustrated I formatted it again. Now its showing a weird behavior. I'll run spinrite and have it repair bad sectors. The drive usually will fix EVERY sector. Then running norton speedisk, I'll run a scan , and indeed it finds 0 bad sectors till I reboot. After reboot it randomly finds bad sectors, yet spinrite will not find them usually. I'm scratching my head here. I don't understand how the sectors are repaired, then randomly go bad again.
Anyone have any advice? It almost seems random. Usually a reboot makes them come back, sometimes the drive works great till I power down after parking the head. Are the sectors perhaps marginal? Perhaps there is dust in the drive?