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Thanks fot your inputs @mdd1963 are hdds better than dramless ssds for a secondary drive for storage and as scratch disks used by apps like photoshop in a desktop setup?

I did reboot the pc after turning it on, but no dice. The drive continued to be undetected in windows and unallocated in disk management. I tried it again and it repaired 1 of the 4 pending sectors..

In which application would you be refering to? In Crystaldisk under Disk, tehre are only the drive's name mentioned.

This is what WD Dashboard had to say, which replaces WD data lifeguard utility: View: https://imgur.com/a/TLzFIqx Doing a short and long S.M.A.R.T test led to the message "One or more problems detected. Failed with error code : 7"

So Victoria managed to remap the sectors as seen below: View: https://imgur.com/a/jdbA0cR This was achieved after a couple of tries as I had to switch off the drive's mbr to make a successful recovery or I'd get 'access denied' errors during Victoria's remapping. Switching off the mbr led to...

oh ok. Thank you for informing. Thought the scan would help provide some info other than the ones we already have.

Awesome. Currently scanning it with Victoria via usb with settings set to 'ignore' Will try the 'remap' option after the scan is complete, with a sata connection if possible.

Thank you for the clear explanation @SkyNetRising. Will try it out and update as soon as possible. Would it be better to remap on an empty drive? Also, would a sata connection be necessary instead of a usb one to do the scanning and remapping?

Thank you for this @SkyNetRising. Once the sectors in question are overwritten, will the drive be good to use and not show a 'caution' indication in crystaldisk etc? Or would it still be risky to use?

Could you please guide me to where it says that in the info I shared? I read that there were 12 bad sectors and couldn't find the 150 sectors info. I would like to know how to read the disk scan numbers and what they mean. Could you please teach me or guide me to a resource I could learn from...

Ok. will try that as soon as I backup what I can. Thanks @Fix_that_Glitch

Guys, Is this WD internal drive safe to use? I was copying folders when suddenly the copying speed went down to zero, even after a couple of retries. Checking the drive on CrystalDisk shows the drive to be in 'caution'. What should I do next? The drive is out of warranty. I have backed up...

Thanks guys.

Ok, so what should I do next?

Is there a way to know if the hard drives are active? The My Passport HDD is blinking while the light of the external case of the toshiba HDD is stable. If I touch the two drives, I can feel a faint vibration.