WD Caviar Green Error Found

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superballz00

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Windows wouldn't boot and won't even let me repair it on my 500gb WD Caviar Green hd because the partition was corrupted. Everything ran fine after I reformated and did a clean install of windoes xp. I scanned the hd with hdtune 3.5 and it found one block error 50secs in. I let it run all the way through and there was only that one block error at the beginning about 2gb in. I got a 1TB WD Caviar Black drive thinking I would need to send in the 500gb drive for repair/replacement. I scanned for errors again with hdtune on the 500gb drive after reformating and still found the error at the same block position. I used the 7 pass erase feature on hdtune to wipe the 500gb drive clean and did an error scan. I was amazed when there was no error found. I ran another scan and the damaged block was no longer there. Can I still send the drive in for RMA?
 
In HD Tune go to the Health tab and see what your Reallocated Sector Count is under the Data column. I think Windows has a bad sector scanner, too.

Oh, and I would RMA it. I don't see WD rejecting it as it was corrupted. In fact, WD is very good with their RMA process so it should go fine.
 
If it was only a logical bad sector then rewriting it with zeros fixed it. Sometimes the ECC data for the sector just gets corrupted and writing over it makes it happy again.
 
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