I’ve been running into issues with my SSD, mainly being unable to make a shadow copy of it (using Veeam Agent).

Just noticed that when Veeam fails, I get a bunch of errors in Windows event log saying : \Device\Harddisk4\DR4 has a bad block

But earlier, I figured bad blocks might be the issue and already ran a full chkdsk /f /r /x on the disk, but it didn’t find any bad block.

Is there another way to find these bad blocks?

  • DiNoMCOPBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    That did it! (I found out about Victoria SSD/HDD earlier today)

    Doing a full scan with Victoria it found just 13 bad sectors, that was enough to make Veeam fail surprisingly. Dunno why chkdsk couldn’t find them.

    It was a bit finicky getting Victoria to remap the sectors on Windows 11 and on a SSD, but I eventually got it. Then I ran chkdsk again and it said it found an error and “fixed the filesystem.”

    Now I just ran Veeam again and it finally succeeded :)

    • hobbyhackerBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      cool. looks like it was a “real” error then. For me there are random disappearing errors from time to time, that’s why I wrote about surprises. Needs some learning, but Victoria is pretty good for fiddling with these errors after you finally understand what it does.