Hi, I am seraching for help with my hard drive, possibly bad, thanks in advance!
I bought a samsung 1TB hard drive and it got a bit slow so I used the s.m.a.r.t. utility from speedfan and got this message, what does it mean?
-your hard disk has 647 pending sectors (this value is very large and your hard disk should be replaced). Those are sectors that couldn't be properly read and that the hard disk logic is waiting for a write operation to try to remap to a spare sector (if available). According to the Reallocated Sector Count attribute, your hard disk seems to have available spare sectors. A simple disk surface scan won't be enough to force the remap operation. You need a read/write surface scan to remap the sector. The best option should be a tool that knows about what should be read from that sector so that it has some option to apply the best fix to the missing data.
-your hard disk has 1 offline uncorrectable sectors. Those are sectors that an offline scanning found as unreadable. Offline scanning is a process that can be automatically started by the hard disk logic when a long enough idle period is detected or that can be forced by some tool. Those unreadable sectors are identified and the hard disk logic is waiting for a write command that will overwrite them to try to remap them to spare sectors (if available). According to the Reallocated Sector Count attribute, your hard disk seems to have available spare sectors. A simple disk surface scan won't be enough to force the remap operation. You need a read/write surface scan to remap the sector. The best option should be a tool that knows about what should be read from that sector so that it has some option to apply the best fix to the missing data.
One wierd thing is I have tried another s.m.a.r.t. utility (techtool pro) and also samsung's s.m.a.r.t. utility and they both say s.m.a.r.t. reports to be fine, so is speedfan lying?
I also used samsungs hard drive diagnose utility called ESTool and got various bad sectors, all said Error code AJ24, Bad sector
so, is my hard definitely bad? or can I save it?
thanks again
I bought a samsung 1TB hard drive and it got a bit slow so I used the s.m.a.r.t. utility from speedfan and got this message, what does it mean?
-your hard disk has 647 pending sectors (this value is very large and your hard disk should be replaced). Those are sectors that couldn't be properly read and that the hard disk logic is waiting for a write operation to try to remap to a spare sector (if available). According to the Reallocated Sector Count attribute, your hard disk seems to have available spare sectors. A simple disk surface scan won't be enough to force the remap operation. You need a read/write surface scan to remap the sector. The best option should be a tool that knows about what should be read from that sector so that it has some option to apply the best fix to the missing data.
-your hard disk has 1 offline uncorrectable sectors. Those are sectors that an offline scanning found as unreadable. Offline scanning is a process that can be automatically started by the hard disk logic when a long enough idle period is detected or that can be forced by some tool. Those unreadable sectors are identified and the hard disk logic is waiting for a write command that will overwrite them to try to remap them to spare sectors (if available). According to the Reallocated Sector Count attribute, your hard disk seems to have available spare sectors. A simple disk surface scan won't be enough to force the remap operation. You need a read/write surface scan to remap the sector. The best option should be a tool that knows about what should be read from that sector so that it has some option to apply the best fix to the missing data.
One wierd thing is I have tried another s.m.a.r.t. utility (techtool pro) and also samsung's s.m.a.r.t. utility and they both say s.m.a.r.t. reports to be fine, so is speedfan lying?
I also used samsungs hard drive diagnose utility called ESTool and got various bad sectors, all said Error code AJ24, Bad sector
so, is my hard definitely bad? or can I save it?
thanks again
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