Question Failing HDD?

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Hi there!

Sorry for the lenght of my post... :D

I have dual boot system: win7 on HDD, win10 on SSD. 2 days ago there was a power outage for a second while I used my computer on the win 10 OS. The pc immediately turned back on and it worked fine. Yesterday after 1-2 hours of web browsing on the win10, I decided to play some games. When I double clicked the launcher the game didn't launch but the following message appeared: this app can't run on your pc.

I had no idea what was it. Right after I tried again and the game successfully launched. I checked the event viewer and I saw an unusal error around the time I tried to launch the game: The IO operation at logical block address 0x175eea90 for Disk 0 (PDO name: \Device\00000031) failed due to a hardware error.

Disk 0 is the HDD in my system. Although I launch the game from the win10 OS, it's installed on the HDD. I've checked the disks with hd sentinel. It came back as there is 1 weak sector on the HDD and 200(?) pending sectors. I also checked it with Crystaldisk.

View: https://imgur.com/a/lMqjzhs

View: https://imgur.com/a/2bkXAg6


The HDD is a Western Digital WD Blue 500GB 16MB 7200rpm SATA3. It came as part of a refurbished PC in 2020 I am currently using. The date on the HDD says it is from 2014.

Could the blackout caused this? Is it the end of the HDD? Can these sectors be fixed?

I already tried to fix it with hdsentinel but it's not a free feature...
I ran a chkdsk also, which looks like was a waste of time.
Althought its 75% full, I keep my critical data on the SSD and on multiple pendrives as I had a feeling for a while I can't trust the HDD. I literally thinking about buying a new 1TB SSD in the recent days as I kinda ran out of space, and I also want to replace my 10 years old PSU...
 

kanewolf

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Hi there!

Sorry for the lenght of my post... :D

I have dual boot system: win7 on HDD, win10 on SSD. 2 days ago there was a power outage for a second while I used my computer on the win 10 OS. The pc immediately turned back on and it worked fine. Yesterday after 1-2 hours of web browsing on the win10, I decided to play some games. When I double clicked the launcher the game didn't launch but the following message appeared: this app can't run on your pc.

I had no idea what was it. Right after I tried again and the game successfully launched. I checked the event viewer and I saw an unusal error around the time I tried to launch the game: The IO operation at logical block address 0x175eea90 for Disk 0 (PDO name: \Device\00000031) failed due to a hardware error.

Disk 0 is the HDD in my system. Although I launch the game from the win10 OS, it's installed on the HDD. I've checked the disks with hd sentinel. It came back as there is 1 weak sector on the HDD and 200(?) pending sectors. I also checked it with Crystaldisk.

View: https://imgur.com/a/lMqjzhs

View: https://imgur.com/a/2bkXAg6


The HDD is a Western Digital WD Blue 500GB 16MB 7200rpm SATA3. It came as part of a refurbished PC in 2020 I am currently using. The date on the HDD says it is from 2014.

Could the blackout caused this? Is it the end of the HDD? Can these sectors be fixed?

I already tried to fix it with hdsentinel but it's not a free feature...
I ran a chkdsk also, which looks like was a waste of time.
Althought its 75% full, I keep my critical data on the SSD and on multiple pendrives as I had a feeling for a while I can't trust the HDD. I literally thinking about buying a new 1TB SSD in the recent days as I kinda ran out of space, and I also want to replace my 10 years old PSU...
Hard drives are not generally "fixable". You should assume it will totally fail soon and prepare for it. A full backup with frequent (daily) incrementals.
BUT, this advice is the same for a new disk. Any disk can fail at any time. You should assume it will and prepare for it.