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Old Sep 20, 2010, 07:57 PM   #1
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Windows is reporting that my drive is about to fail. I checked the SMART with HDTune and it says that my reallocated sectors count is high. It's at 127, which I don't think is that bad. I can't hear anything wrong with the hard drive. I've already backed up my data (A few weeks ago because I was planning to format anyway). Is that number too high or do I need not be concerned about it?
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Re: Hard Drive Issue
If you are backed up and were planning a format, why not format and see what it says after a restore......
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Re: Hard Drive Issue
Maybe it would be a good idea to use a low level format tool?

Bad sectors are a bad sign, not worth taking risk with such a drive, so if formatting doesn't help...
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Maybe it would be a good idea to use a low level format tool?

Bad sectors are a bad sign, not worth taking risk with such a drive, so if formatting doesn't help...
Can you suggest any tools? I will only have time to do this tomorrow. After that, I shall be extremely busy.

By the way, I ran a quick scan for bad sectors and it came up with nothing. I'm running a thorough scan right now.
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Re: Hard Drive Issue
Use the manufactures utility....... if it's one of the WD's listed in your specs, use theirs.
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Old Sep 21, 2010, 12:15 AM Threadstarter Thread Starter   #6
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Use the manufactures utility....... if it's one of the WD's listed in your specs, use theirs.
Would it be worth it to get an RMA with the warranty? From what I've read, reallocated sectors cannot be fixed, and I still have 4 years left on warranty.
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Old Sep 21, 2010, 12:22 AM   #7
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Sure....... didn't know you were still under warranty. Running their tool would verify a fault though..... not sure about WD, but several years ago Seagate/Maxtor used to want the owner to run their tool before issuing a RMA.
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Never trust a HDD which shows faults. Even if you "fix" it, you are only postponing the inevitable. That's my view, get rid of it and get a new.
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Never trust a HDD which shows faults. Even if you "fix" it, you are only postponing the inevitable. That's my view, get rid of it and get a new.
Working on the RMA right now.

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Re: Hard Drive Issue
If i ever see even just ONE bad sector show on a hardrive..

i bin the hardrive and get a new one..

Bad-Sectors are bad... do not play with them... they do not play nicely.. because where there is one.. there are usually many hiding in the shadows ready to rape your important files
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I'd have to agree with that. Once had a drive that got a few bad sectors. At first I just tried to lock those and it worked for a while but it didn't take much long until the entire drive failed.
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Re: Hard Drive Issue
There are no BAD sectors. A scan with WD's tool and with HD Tune revealed no issues except the reallocated sectors count.
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Re: Hard Drive Issue
sounds like you might have an intermitent issue ..

keep and eye on it
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