I’ve been running into issues with my SSD, mainly being unable to make a shadow copy of it (using Veeam Agent).

Just noticed that when Veeam fails, I get a bunch of errors in Windows event log saying : \Device\Harddisk4\DR4 has a bad block

But earlier, I figured bad blocks might be the issue and already ran a full chkdsk /f /r /x on the disk, but it didn’t find any bad block.

Is there another way to find these bad blocks?

      • hobbyhacker@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        you can run a full read scan with HD Sentinel, Victoria, or anything else you like. That will read each sector and also show which file is at that sector. Anyway, on SSD everything works magically different, so expect some surprises.

        • DiNoMC@alien.topOPBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          That did it! (I found out about Victoria SSD/HDD earlier today)

          Doing a full scan with Victoria it found just 13 bad sectors, that was enough to make Veeam fail surprisingly. Dunno why chkdsk couldn’t find them.

          It was a bit finicky getting Victoria to remap the sectors on Windows 11 and on a SSD, but I eventually got it. Then I ran chkdsk again and it said it found an error and “fixed the filesystem.”

          Now I just ran Veeam again and it finally succeeded :)

          • hobbyhacker@alien.topBEnglish
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            1 year ago

            cool. looks like it was a “real” error then. For me there are random disappearing errors from time to time, that’s why I wrote about surprises. Needs some learning, but Victoria is pretty good for fiddling with these errors after you finally understand what it does.

  • BraveDaveX@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Had a similar issue with Veeam agent reporting bad sectors on my laptops SSD. Was using an XPG 1TB GAMMIX S70 Blade at the time. Solved it by using Macrium Reflect to create an image, while ignoring bad sectors (On the menu select Other tasks > Edit defaults and Settings > Advanced Settings >Advanced Backup Settings >Select Ignore bad sectors > Click OK) . Then I flashed that image to another SSD and used that to replace the S70.

    • DiNoMC@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure I should replace it since it might just be a couple sectors that need to be marked as unusable and then the disk would be fine. But I can’t get chkdsk to find them for some reason.

  • Due_Bass7191@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think, once a block is marked bad it isn’t checked again. Your drive literally shrinks. And as the blocks go bad it is like a cascade. That drive has a limited life expectancy.

    Or not. My memory on this is spotty. Maybe bad blocks in my brain.