Best HDD Tool for SMART and HDD Repair

[waris007]

Please Recommend some good Hard disk tools for repairing HDD (bad sector) and for SMART.

I have an 8-year-old HDD(Samsung 320GB)
I don't have any problem yet but how can I know whether it is going to damage permanently.

Thank You.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

You can't repair bad sectors - - that's physical wear-and-tear on the data platter of the HDD. When they start to appear it's time to consider replacing the HDD because the bad sectors will just increase over time.

Get used to the fact that all HDDs will fail sooner or later.

Best diagnostic software for HDD health is that provided by the manufacturer for WD or Seagate drives.

The WD software will only test WD HDDs, but the Seagate software will test any brand:

https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/seatools/

 

[waris007]

You can't repair bad sectors - - that's physical wear-and-tear on the data platter of the HDD. When they start to appear it's time to consider replacing the HDD because the bad sectors will just increase over time.

Get used to the fact that all HDDs will fail sooner or later.

Best diagnostic software for HDD health is that provided by the manufacturer for WD or Seagate drives.

The WD software will only test WD HDDs, but the Seagate software will test any brand:

https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/seatools/

So bad sector cant be fixed?
So any benifit in Full Format?

 

[mdd1963]

Often, once drives suffer a slight crash, they frequently have precious limited hours left of functionality, which can be reduced to next to nothing when doing a multihour full format or disk check....

Back up/exfiltrate your data elsewhere first....

Then, full format to your heart's content, if it is merely corrupt sectors, then a full format might block out any bad ones and last for years....but, my money is on full failure within a weak of when numerous bad sectors start to show up...

If you don't need it, it will last a year longer....; if it is critical, it'll quit when you are trying to get data off it...

(You know the drill!)

 

[waris007]

Often, once drives suffer a slight crash, they frequently have precious limited hours left of functionality, which can be reduced to next to nothing when doing a multihour full format or disk check....

Back up/exfiltrate your data elsewhere first....

Then, full format to your heart's content, if it is merely corrupt sectors, then a full format might block out any bad ones and last for years....but, my money is on full failure within a weak of when numerous bad sectors start to show up...

If you don't need it, it will last a year longer....; if it is critical, it'll quit when you are trying to get data off it...

(You know the drill!)

Okay Thank You
Because Full Format Fixed my 1 TB HDD.
HDD Tune Showed 4 Sector "Red" - Bad Sector