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Is SpinRite not working or is SSD too far gone?
Noswal
Showing pics attached, I started it about 11pm and went to bed with it saying it will take over an hour, this morning I wake up to find its somewhat stuck and several days to finish.
So per thread title is SpinRite not working correctly or is SSD too far gone? ssd is about 3 years old. In that its day to day use (has only Game files) there isnt any determent when playing/using it.
ColbyBouma
Noswal
ColbyBouma
Thanks!
The big thing I wanted to check is "vendor-device", which is your disk controller. You have the same one as me, 8086-A102, so that's definitely not the problem.
The only other thing that stands out to me is that you're running Release 1. I don't remember if Steve changed anything related to this, but it's probably worth trying Release 4.
I agree with Paul about trying FORCEBIOS. Hikvision is an uncommon SSD brand. It's possible their firmware doesn't play nice with SpinRite's default 32,768 sector transfers.
Noswal
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DanR
Sadly there are limits to what SpinRite can do. This drive may be beyond those limits.
One thing you might try is: spinrite xfer X
Where X is any integer between 1 and 32,768. I note your latest log shows 32768 which this drive is absolutely refusing to accept. ForceBIOS uses 127. That did not work either.
So . . . I would say try something like xfer 16 or xfer 8 or xfer 4 (for example) to make SR as gentle as possible. Just for curiosity. Or not.
ColbyBouma