HDD Regenerator will often fail here. Skip S.M.A.R.T. check in the BIOS settings (set to "Disabled" or "Auto").

Imagine a hard drive as a massive library where some shelves have become tilted, making books (data) slide off and become unreadable. These are "bad sectors". While most tools just mark these shelves as "broken" and move on, HDD Regenerator claimed to use a to physically "straighten" them out at the magnetic level.