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need a suggestion on a third party application that can "write zeroes" to damaged sectors on my ext HDD

Created: 2018-08-04

Updated: 2018-08-11

vars - 2018-08-04

ok so I made a huge mistake- I started the encryption process of my HDisk without making sure how much (if any) of the sectors were damaged- when it got to 99.398% the encryption process stopped and told me that there were physically damaged sectors that needed 0s written to them so that the HDisk can be accessed- now Veracrypt cannot write 0s to this HUGE number of sectors (apprx 0.6% of almost 2 billion sectors- 931.5 gb)- I really need help figuring how to recover as much data as possible- I cannot mount since the encryption process is incomplete and Windows asks me to format every time I plug it in- I even tried using EaseUS to repair but it regards the HDisk as "Unformatted".- PLEASE HELP.

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None no - 2018-08-11

Can't you mount it in a second computer?

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