How to Repair Bad Sectors in SSD/NVME (Macrorit Partition Expert)

Repair Logical Bad Sectors in your precious NVME!
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[eiolhaso]

It totally work for me with a Samsung NVMe! Thank you very much!
Note: I've used AOMEI Partition Assistant rather than Macrorit Partition Expert for all operations.

[АлександрКраповницкий]

It appears that padding with zeros fixes bad sectors on different models and is not typical only for a certain model. Samsung had 1 bad sector constantly moving around the disk, while Kingston had multiple problems. The disk seemed dead, the OS crashed, read 15 MB/sec and suddenly became 100% healthy.

[taoh]

Wasn't able to use this method on a SCY S3000 NVMe. Software didn't recognize the partition, and I think other tools saw the partition as raw. Only got IO errors with Windows based tools. Clonezilla came to the rescue by being able to create an image, then restoring the image to another drive. Was more interested in replacing the drive than "repair" but needed to recover the data.

[xakepbg]

Heya, after power loss my D_NVME shows 4KB in bad sectors. Because surface test don't show any problematic sector, I do Fill with zero to all drive. When finish, disk need to initialize again. After that make NTFS partition and when recheck it with chkdsk /r /f /x, bad sectors disappear. Thank you.

[petro-kolomoysky]

Clever idea, but here is problem. Some nvme will stuck, when they try to read from broken sector. So if you attempt to move the partition to rewrite this area, it will freeze in middle of the move. Goodbye data. Thus the better way is: detect failure blocks numbers with linux "badblock" utility in raw read mode (filesystem irrelevant), then instruct "hdparm" utility to write into that specific block unconditionally.

[AlexanderGarcia-dh]

Hi, I cloned my HDD (it only had 4kb of bad sectors) to a new SSD. After the process, I ran the CHKDSK command on the new SSD drive, I couldn't believe it, the 4k bad sectors were also on the new drive! On the other hand, I used macrorit to do a surface test on the new drive, guess what... no bad sectors at all!!! I don't really understand what's going on, any suggestions?
Thanks in advanced!!!

[vonRichthofen]

Well, my SSD has a few bad sectors somewhere in the middle, in the area between 51-57% of it. Does this method offer the possibility to remove only the problem area, and then I can merge the two good parts?

[halilekiz]

Hello, while doing this scan, a red dot appears, then the computer gives a blue screen and shuts down. This indicates that the disk is completely corrupted.

after power loss my NVME dont initialize windows, dont format and in the diskpart dont shows in the list disk, only in the list volume but with type RAW... i tried to delete volume, format, chndsk, etc... but nothing works.

[LuchitoyVale]

hey boss thanks for sharing I am trying to fix an issue that we have with an NMVE 2TB Kingston suddenly it stopped working (Windows 11 and data on it) now I get plugged it as an external drive to another computer using an enclosure, it recognizes the drive and 2 volumes on it unfortunately they are not accesible no more. Any ideas? I am trying chkdsk to repair the partitions but it gets stuck and nothing happens after that 😢

[Juli.]

Been having some highly confusing issues, when I try to resize the volume using this method I get error "Code: 3223, Error Text: ERR_NTFS_LOAD_BITMAP" and it doesn't work. I frankly don't know what to do anymore.

[arthurb]

Do you have any tip for a faulty SSD (Asgard) that I delete files and partitions but as soon as I do it, it restore the files and partitions? I've tried TestDisk, Diskpart... Nothing works. It seems that the MFT is broken but I can't fix it no matter I try.

[solomonaom]

how do you know size of bad sector? 3 gb as you mention how to calculate

[erlindaramos]

I have 100% health and performance of SSD and when I tried to create disk using this macrorit it keep saying ERROR missing device.

[SonoKedo]

i Have some bad sectors in the beginning and some in the end. Is this disk lost?

[RocZi]

wait, how to know where does the red colour sector starts? i got the scan_log. it says

Physical bad sector No: 6013454336, count: 2048.
Starting bad sector location: 2.800 TB, size: 1.000 MB.

so if i change my scan area to aroud 2.799 TB and 2.801 TB, i should find it? i tried to scan this area but no bad sector found.

[MeepMeep]

2:57 confused at this part, how do you tell how far you slide it to?

[Atharahmen]

Hi would you mind to help me, so when i tried to scan SSD on macrocit i found a lot bad sectors, but the scan apparently got stuck, then i check the SSD on task manager it showed 100% activity times, i've wait almost an hour but the scan got stucked, do you have another method or way?

[cesarreyes]

You started in Drive G: ROG and ended in Drive C:Corsair. I am not sure it will work in the SO disk C: without messing up the boot sectors, fat, etc. Has anyone tried that without loosing information?

[STEVANUSGameDev]

i have problem my health is 22% on sentinel harddisk but i check on macrorit its 100% green. but i cant play any game and goes blue screen