I've got 14 bad sectors on my Kingston HyperX SSD. Although any benchmark shows that SMART for this drive is good or 100% on CrystalDiskInfo. Is there any way to erase them? I've tried Vitoria with remap and erase options, but with no effect.
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If you simply marked them a bad block? – peterh Jul 27 '14 at 14:18
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Do you mean leave it as is? – vmeln Jul 27 '14 at 14:19
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Yes. Don't reformat them in the future, or make a badblock scan after that, that is all. – peterh Jul 27 '14 at 14:34
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It can cause BSOD's or unexpected hangs? – vmeln Jul 27 '14 at 14:48
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As you have tried software with "remap" option it may well be the bad blocks already has been remapped. They still get shown though, so that you get aware of the problem.
Then the only concern you should have is: does the bad block count increase?
If the count starts to increase - or you see IO failures - you may have an imminent disk failure to handle
(i.e. copy data over to a new disk, scrap this one).
Hannu
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I've already done with this. But I'm disturbed with one thing: bad blocks could be the root cause of BSOD's or unexpected system hangs? RAM diagnostic tool showed that it's okay. – vmeln Jul 28 '14 at 09:39
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2`bad blocks could be the root cause of BSOD's or unexpected system hangs?` - if they **have been mapped out**, NO. But also note that if a **NEW** bad block appears in a vital spot on the disk, that **could** create a situation that related software cannot handle gracefully -> effect: `BSOD` to `nothing`. – Hannu Jul 28 '14 at 09:44