[SOLVED] 61 Bad Sectors on my Hard Disk Drive!!

[thisisajaym]

Recently i started getting slow reads and unable to access certain file in my 4 year old WD 2TB green internal hard disk drive.I have backup up all the data.Ran a test on hard disk sentinel and it is showing 65% health report and 61 weak sectors.I'm not a techy.

So is it safe to further use my HDD or should i dump it and replace it ?

I am a video producer and photographer so i mainly deal with video and photo editing from footage on the this HDD.My OS and mains apps are on a separate 120 GB samsung evo SSD.

Attaching a photo for further reference:
https://ibb.co/Smy2dvG

 

[little_me]

Weak sectors might not be completely bad. Since all data is backed up you could try
chkdsk driveletter: /f /b (It will take hours)
to retest the supposed bad clusters. for the weak ones, it could work. If it wont... drive is dead, replace.

Safest option would be to dump it though.. 2TB internal hard disks are not all that expensive anymore.

 

[SkyNetRising]

So is it safe to further use my HDD or should i dump it and replace it ?

Can you show screenshot from S.M.A.R.T. tab also?

 

[thisisajaym]

So is it safe to further use my HDD or should i dump it and replace it ?

Can you show screenshot from S.M.A.R.T. tab also?

Here you go : https://ibb.co/WcDnktQ

 

[thisisajaym]

Weak sectors might not be completely bad. Since all data is backed up you could try
chkdsk driveletter: /f /b (It will take hours)
to retest the supposed bad clusters. for the weak ones, it could work. If it wont... drive is dead, replace.

Safest option would be to dump it though.. 2TB internal hard disks are not all that expensive anymore.

Is there a way to skip those bad sectors and use the rest of the good sectors as a temporary solution? or how do i know which drive partition are safe to use ? What will happen if i re partition the drives ?

 

[SkyNetRising]

61 pending sectors (hex 3d) is not a very big number.
You can resolve them using MHDD scan with relocate option.

http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

 

[thisisajaym]

61 pending sectors (hex 3d) is not a very big number.
You can resolve them using MHDD scan with relocate option.

http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

What about using the Hard Disk Sentinel > Surface Test > Reinitialize Disk Surface option? I have that software.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Not familiar with that software.
Try it and see, if it can change Current Pending Sectors count.

It looks like that option will overwrite contents of the drive.

MHDD can relocate pending sectors without destroying your data.

 

[thisisajaym]

Not familiar with that software.
Try it and see, if it can change Current Pending Sectors count.

It looks like that option will overwrite contents of the drive.

MHDD can relocate pending sectors without destroying your data.

I have backed up all the data.Going to try it out tonight.Will let you know the outcome.Thanks for all the infos and help sir.

Is MHDD freeware software ? Is it easy to use for a beginner ?

 

[mdd1963]

As 2 TB drives are about $25-$30 on Amazon; once drives begin to have bad sectors, one is pretty much begging for trouble if counting on/continuing to use that drive in the future...

Get what data you can from it while you can.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Is MHDD freeware software ? Is it easy to use for a beginner ?

Yes freeware. Pretty easy to use. You just need to read command reference.
For resolving pending sectors you use commands "port" and "scan".