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Dr. Blip's PC-Doctor® ForumDr. Blip's ForumAsk Our Experts (Moderators: Chris Hill, James_PCD, SMart)Hard Drive Tests and Drive Encryption
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« on: October 13, 2011, 08:41:20 AM »
Will drive encryption cause the Linear, Random and Funnel Seek tests to fail?  Surface scan fails too, but all SMART tests pass.
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« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2011, 09:29:03 AM »
rvanf58,

There are certain types of drive encryption that report as general I/O failures rather than access denied, these failures would appear to be bad sectors to our tests, thus resulting with a failed test result. 
If you ran all SMART tests, including the extended SMART Test, than the failures you are seeing may be the result of the encryption.

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