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February 3rd, 2023 12:00
Bad blocks virtual disk raid 1 Perc H710
Good afternoon. We have a Dell T420 server with 2 Dell certified 1TB HDD drives in RAID 1.
Perc H710.
Disk 2 started to fail, the windows registry indicated that you had bad sectors, although the Virtual DISK was showing correct. We had 2 hard drives in reserve so we were scheduled to replace the faulty hard drive, but at that time drive 1 failed completely. We replaced disk 1 and the raid regenerated successfully and is working. Then we changed disk 2 and regenerated the raid again, so now we have the 2 hard drives without errors and with the Raid working, but it gives us an error indicating that the virtual disk has bad blocks. The backups we make from windows are not finished, the C partition cannot be completely copied, the D is completely copied without problems. The question is how can I repair those bad blocks of the virtual disk, we see that there is an option "clear bad blocks of the virtual disk", but we don't know if this can fix the error or it may damage the virtual disk. We are sure that now the 2 new hard drives do not have physical errors. Should we do a consistency check first? Thank you.


DELL-Young E
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February 5th, 2023 14:00
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February 10th, 2023 02:00
Never run any repair functions on a drive with bad sectors it will go down hill very fast, you need to get the drive restored to a 100% working drive first and then you can try to repair bad blocks.
To restore it to another disk is normally what professional data recovering companies do but there is DIY options depends how valuable your data is.
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February 10th, 2023 06:00
Thank you this is a good point.
Regards Martin
Praveen.Singh
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March 13th, 2023 08:00
Hello My friend,
do not perform any DIY on VD if you dont have the latest copy of backup, or Do a proper data backup try to reconfigure the raid Volume and then copy back the data.or procced accordingly.