Fixing bad sectors with WD Data Lifeguard?

[XGamer_BiH]

Hello everyone,

I have slow perfomance on pc, because of my HDD "almost" breakdown. So, I decided to test it with the Data Lifeguard from WD, it failed, so it asked me to try fix them. I read somewhere that 80gb takes about 40 minutes, and my is 1tb, so over about 10hours. I will leave it at night. So my question is, will that tool fix some of them, or just waist my time, and will I loose ANY kind of data? Thanks in advance

 

[Kurz]

You can't repair an old harddrive.
Just back up the data and get a new drive.

 

[DeadRam]

Hard drive tools can't fix the bad sectors, they only map them as bad so the OS doesn't write data to those sectors. I would backup your data, purchase a new hard drive and restore the data. Keep the bad hard drive as a backup but only to recover data if the need arises.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Post screenshot from hdtune health.

 

[XGamer_BiH]

You can't repair an old harddrive.
Just back up the data and get a new drive.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236339
Old? Doesn't look like it is. I have a warranty, but not sure will they accept it, if they do, I still have to lose my 600gb of games...

 

[XGamer_BiH]

Hard drive tools can't fix the bad sectors, they only map them as bad so the OS doesn't write data to those sectors. I would backup your data, purchase a new hard drive and restore the data. Keep the bad hard drive as a backup but only to recover data if the need arises.

Well there are not too much bad sectors, I mean there were, but not anymore (about 30 right now), but I felt a big perfomance breakdown. The problem is I don't have an another drive to back up 600gb of files.

 

[XGamer_BiH]

Post screenshot from hdtune health.

I hope this is what you needed, and sorry I used HD Sentinel.
http://s21.postimg.org/qmjas73af/hdd1.png
http://s21.postimg.org/j7tyzthev/hdd2.png

 

[Kurz]

Harddrives can fail at any time. Its normal to have bad sectors, its not normal to keep getting them.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Those are not yet bad sectors - just pending sectors (29).
Their status must be resolved by overwriting. Depending on result those sectors will become relocated or not.

Use mhdd scan with remap option to do that.
http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

 

[XGamer_BiH]

Harddrives can fail at any time. Its normal to have bad sectors, its not normal to keep getting them.

Well it was 100% healthy, dropped to 90% and in 2 days to 55%, and repaired itself to 83% in a few days.

 

[XGamer_BiH]

Those are not yet bad sectors - just pending sectors (29).
Their status must be resolved by overwriting. Depending on result those sectors will become relocated or not.

Use mhdd scan with remap option to do that.
http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

It was a long time on 100% health, dropped to 90%, and in a few days to 55%, in a few days started going up and stopped at 83%, since then it doesn't move anymore. I'll try that.