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I have a portable 5TB HDD. I was downloading data on it and it was 3/4 (or so, almost full) full with documents.

I am running Windows 7 x64 bits. I also rand HDD Regenerator which took 5 days or so to complete and it didn't find anything

I did chkdsk /f /v /r /x just to check it. It was shown to be perfect in HDD Sentinel before.

I while running the command above it suddenly stopped and thrown an error saying that it doesn't have enough free space to check files or sectors.

After that I checked it again with HDD sentinel and it shows that this (brand new HDD) it is now bad and need to be changed.

These are the error messages:

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I run diskpart and delete/clean partition and then I did a full NTFS format which took almost 3.5 days or so to complete and now the errors above still the same.

How to delete or get rid of these fake bad sectors?

I think they are fake because of that chkdsk broken command I'm just talking above because it is brand new and checked periodically with HDD Sentinel and it was PERFECT until this happened.

Giacomo1968
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YoYoYo
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These are not fake. The HDD has detected and remapped some bad sectors. That's it.

It's not unusual for new drives to be faulty. Actually they are more likely to fail.

Get the drive replaced with a good one.

gronostaj
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3.5 days to write a partition table?? I'd say it's bust. Your best bet would be return to vendor as DOA.

NTFS is a fragile file system and I don't have faith in those tools.

If you're really quite serious about keeping the drive (I wouldn't), I would run a read-write check with *nix 'badblocks' program. This will probably take days, but you can be 99% confident in the result. I'm guessing it will likely start throwing errors pretty quickly though.

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