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Is There Any Hope?
Well, I'm stuck with a hard drive that has failed. It is a micro Sata drive 1.8" and I would normally just replace the hard drive, but the price seems expensive just for 60gb+. Well anyways. The problem with the drive is that, after doing a scan with Victoria. S.M.A.R.T shows the drive health as 0 and only the first 3.4gb of the drive is readable. After that everything was marked as a bad sector from LBA about 246,000.
I'm just wondering, if this drive is a no go, or if some one knows any tips, techniques or anything to repair the drive. I can't seem to figure how the disk surface could have become so damaged. Formatting doesn't work. The drive has remapped all the bad sectors that it could and used all the available sectors it had. :s