
I tried writing all zeros using WD disk tool, and got an error right away.Ģ of the drives are WD red 3TB drives, and the other 2 are Toshiba 3TB drives.Īny ideas on what I can do? I have 4 disks all with the same problem, I've tried everything I can think of. Obviously that is not going to be useful. When I woke up, I did some math on the number of sectors scanned vs how many remain and it would take roughly 9,600 days to complete.

I try doing the partition restoration, and let it run all night long. I thought that it could redo the partition table and wipe the whole disk out as if it were brand new. I've tried using minitool partition and the drive shows up as "bad disk" when I plug it in. I tried using diskpart in windows to remove read only attributes, and it failed.

I found a tutorial on gparted website to correct this issue, and could not make any changes due to the read only. It shows that a partition is outside of the disk. I've tried formatting the partition table using gparted in linux, and I get read only file system errors. I try to initialize them as mbr in windows and get a "cyclic redundancy check" error. I plug them into a windows box and try to initialize them as a gpt, and get "cannot access file" or something like that. It gives me some sort of read only error.

Freenas will recognize the drives, but errors out when trying to add them to a pool. I've since upgraded hardware that supports it, and am trying to use these drives now. I tried to add them to freenas zpool a few years ago, and when they formatted, they formatted weird because the raid controller did not recognize 3 tb drives I think they showed up as 2.2 tb or something. I am trying to format some new drives (initialize them).
