timeshifter
Well-Known Member
- Reaction score
- 2,160
- Location
- USA
A couple of days ago I set up an external 2TB USB hard drive for a customer to backup to using Veeam. She also had another external drive with data that we were including in the backup. Her machine never backed up and locked up frequently over the last couple of days.
I saw this error and others like it
Description
------------
The device, \Device\Harddisk2\DR4, has a bad block.
Details
------------
Log Name: System
Source: disk
Event ID: 7
Level: Error
User: null
Task Category: null
Logged: 6/28/2022, 9:33:54 PM
Description
------------
The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR2, has a bad block.
Details
------------
Log Name: System
Source: disk
Event ID: 7
Level: Error
User: null
Task Category: null
Logged: 6/29/2022, 9:50:36 PM
I the past I've always struggled clearly identifying which drive is Harddisk1 etc as it doesn't always line up with what you see in Disk Management. So dreading trying to re-understand that today I found this:
superuser.com
Which basically says use this PowerShell command as Admin
Get-PhysicalDisk | Select -Prop DeviceId,FriendlyName,SerialNumber
Works great.
Oh, by the way. She got another external drive and it backed up without error. Don't recall ever seeing a brand new USB drive act up like that, but I guess it's inevitable once you deal with enough of them.
I saw this error and others like it
Description
------------
The device, \Device\Harddisk2\DR4, has a bad block.
Details
------------
Log Name: System
Source: disk
Event ID: 7
Level: Error
User: null
Task Category: null
Logged: 6/28/2022, 9:33:54 PM
Description
------------
The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR2, has a bad block.
Details
------------
Log Name: System
Source: disk
Event ID: 7
Level: Error
User: null
Task Category: null
Logged: 6/29/2022, 9:50:36 PM
I the past I've always struggled clearly identifying which drive is Harddisk1 etc as it doesn't always line up with what you see in Disk Management. So dreading trying to re-understand that today I found this:
Which drive is \Device\Harddisk1\DR1?
While I was trying to find out why the main disk is performing a form of unexpained "thrashing"(while there was no RAM issue), freezing up apps temporarily, I found a relevant error in the logs: ...
Which basically says use this PowerShell command as Admin
Get-PhysicalDisk | Select -Prop DeviceId,FriendlyName,SerialNumber
Works great.
Oh, by the way. She got another external drive and it backed up without error. Don't recall ever seeing a brand new USB drive act up like that, but I guess it's inevitable once you deal with enough of them.
