![]() ![]() WD Drive Utilities says the SMART is fine, it passes the quick check, but that it doesn’t pass the detailed check (maybe because this test checks for the bad sectors remapped by Disk Utility).Īccording to the support, the drive may start failing. I then used Disk Utility for a first aid pass, and it seem to restore it to functioning. ![]() The drive couldn’t even be removed, but only force-ejected. Time Machine has done a few backups on it, but it is the second time I get a message of backup not possible. I’m not sure it is really remapped, however. It apparently worked, after some ten hours of formatting. I then disconnected everything, restarted my Mac, and then tried with the Mac Drive Utility, and formatted the drive with a single pass of zeros. It then took very short, but the drive was unreadable. It took more than 15 hours, and then the power broke in my neighborhood, and I had to restart formatting. In the meantime, I had used WD Drive Utilities to try to reformat it. ![]()
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