joe-dirt-1001

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I fucked up Seagate 2TB Seagate USB drive in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I assume you've don't this before and the Synology uses a disk format that Mac can read?

Had a storage machine in cold storage and unpowered for almost an entire year. Advice on insuring data integrity on startup? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not much you can do after it's been storage. Boot it up. It will work or it wont.

How to fully format external HD without leaving it running for days? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You need to perform a low level format to get all of the bad sectors marked. After that, you can partition and perform a normal format. When that is complete, if it still shows as bad in CrystalDickInfo, I wouldn't trust it.