Fixing a Pending Sector Count Without a Full Wipe?
My WD Passport drive has a CPSC of 4 at the moment. For several reasons I cannot just backup and full-wipe:
- The drive is a slow, 4800 RPM, SMR drive that I have to copy in small bursts to, as a large copy without "time to breathe" will tank write speeds... So copying back to the drive would take eons.
- Even if I was willing to sink the time in, I also don't just have 4.3 TB of extra space for all the stuff on the drive lying around so I could even do a backup.
So my real question is: since these pending sectors are known, is there a way I can force a write to their specific spot so the drive can finally determine whether they're dead or not? Because naturally writing data has only brought the count randomly down from 6 to 4 over the course of months.