Question Event Viewer with a lot of bad block errors vs normal SMART read?

[ovadose]

Hi all. I am hopeful someone could help me figure out what the problem could be related to. Normally I'd suspect any bad block error to be related to a failing drive, however checking SMART values it seems the drive is functioning well? The bad block errors definitely started to appear more recently. With that being said, I did experience sporadic system crashes or situations where BIOS did not detect this drive as the correct boot drive, though this would usually 'fix itself' after a restart. This is also the drive that contains the OS. I suspect I'll have to replace the drive anyway, though it's driving me a bit crazy trying to figure this out.

I have attached the error from event viewer (usually they come as a batch) and the SMART values from Crystal to compare.

Appreciate your help in advance!

EDIT: Thanks Ralston18 for the initial help and apologies for not including the full hardware details.

OS: Windows 11 pro
CPU: Intel 12600k
PSU: Corsair RM750x - bought new in 2022 for a new build.
MOBO: Asus z690p d4
Ram: G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 32gb (2x16gb) CL18-22-22-42 @ 1.35V
Storage: ADATA SX8200PNP NVME x2 (1tb each); The affected drive has ~800gb data on it.
+ Samsung 850 EVO 500gb
GPU: EVGA 3080 12gb

 

[Ralston18]

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

Include PSU: make, model, wattage, age, condition (original to build, new, refurbished, used)?

Disk drive(s): make, model, capacity, how full?

Also look in Reliability History/Monitor. Much more end user friendly than Event Viewer and the time line format may reveal some pattern with respect to block errors.

Another place to look is Update History: any failed or problem updates?

Lastly run "dism" and "sfc /scannow". Could be corrupted or buggy files.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-dism-command-line-utility-repair-windows-10-image

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-use-sfc-scannow-to-repair-windows-system-files-2626161

Post accordingly.

 

[ovadose]

Thank you for the initial help! I'll have a look at the reliability monitor after work. I did run DISM and SFC a few times with 0 errors found. I updated the post with specs - apologies for not including the info initially.

 

[fzabkar]

There are numerous Media and Data Integrity Errors in the SMART report.