Question Clear pending sectors w/o reformat?

[imrazor]

I have a Windows 10 drive with 4 pending sectors according to SMART. Assuming this thing isn't on death's door, is there anyway to force the drive to go ahead and reallocate the sectors without reformatting? I understand a 'full format' is the preferred way to fix this problem, but I don't have an external drive with enough space to hold all the files on this internal one.

EDIT: Did some searching and a reference to "MHDD" came up. I downloaded the utility, booted off the ISO, but it couldn't detect any of my disks. Maybe because of the AMD SATA controller?

 

[popatim]

Pending means those sectors are waiting for the drive to retest them. If they pass then they will become active again. If they fail then the drive will re-allocate them.

All you need to do is wait. 😊