Force spinrite to mark part of the drive as Defective

[HenrikDahlin]

I am running spinrite on an empty drive. Is is now running very, very slow at 6,4810 %.

Question: Can i somehow mark parts of the drive as defective?

I want to do this to to speed things upp. I dont have time to wait this long. Is has been stuck at 6,4810 to 6,4814 for 5 days and i dont care about recovery.
It would be nice to be able to mark (for example) 6,480 to 6,500 as Defective, to move things along

/Henrik

 

[PHolder]

If you don't care about recovery there is a command line option that can disable the retries it is doing. From the command line add the /DYNASTAT 0 and it will spend *NO* time on recovery at all. This WILL cause data loss on drives with any errors.

https://www.grc.com/sr/faq.htm

 

[HenrikDahlin]

If you don't care about recovery there is a command line option that can disable the retries it is doing. From the command line add the /DYNASTAT 0 and it will spend *NO* time on recovery at all. This WILL cause data loss on drives with any errors.

https://www.grc.com/sr/faq.htm

Thank you, I will try that.

 

[DanR]

@HenrikDahlin

If you are running SpinRite from writable bootable media, I would advise having Data Logging turned on. At the end of the run, the SRLOG file will show how many sectors were reallocated by DynaStat 0. If the quantity is large I would be very cautious about using this drive for any important data storage.