Question HD SCAN DETECTING ERRORS

[ashtekaros]

HDD SCAN SMART detected some errors. How serious are them and should i be worried regarding them ?
should i turn off the pc and buy a new hdd or sdd to clone my memory?

The following errors were detected:

Relocation Sector Count (Yellow Warn Sign)
Relocation Event Count (Yellow Warn Sign)
Current Pending Errors Count (Yellow Warn Sign)

Thanks.

 

[rgd1101]

always backup your data

 

[fzabkar]

Those are usually the first sign that the drive has degraded. Keep watching the numbers and back up your data regularly.

 

[ashtekaros]

Those are usually the first sign that the drive has degraded. Keep watching the numbers and back up your data regularly.

thanks. but should i turn off the computer to avoid losing the HDD data? in order to transfer the data to another HDD or SDD?

are those listed errors serious? how serious they are?

 

[cherrysmoke]

thanks. but should i turn off the computer to avoid losing the HDD data? in order to transfer the data to another HDD or SDD?

are those listed errors serious? how serious they are?

It depends on the amount of reassigned sectors, how fast they increase.
Knowing the time your HDD has been used, the temperatures it normally has, and the actual performance you get, will also help find the answer. (add them to the thread if you can)

My suggestion would be to start backing up files, at least the most important ones.

Taking in consideration all these factor will let know if it's time for a new drive.

 

[ashtekaros]

It depends on the amount of reassigned sectors, how fast they increase.
Knowing the time your HDD has been used, the temperatures it normally has, and the actual performance you get, will also help find the answer. (add them to the thread if you can)

My suggestion would be to start backing up files, at least the most important ones.

Taking in consideration all these factor will let know if it's time for a new drive.

Used it for more or less 40 min today and the Temperature of the primary HDD rose to 50 Degrees Celsius, which is quite quick.

Crystal DiskInfo marked temperature as red. Although it istill placed as Caution. HDD Smart Scan now also marks a temperature warning. I stopped usage after seeing that.

My plan is to tell the tech to transfer the HDD memory to my Secondary HDD, which is marked all Green and with no problems. But is this problem so serious it will not even be able to transfer ?

 

[cherrysmoke]

Used it for more or less 40 min today and the Temperature of the primary HDD rose to 50 Degrees Celsius, which is quite quick.

Crystal DiskInfo marked temperature as red. Although it istill placed as Caution. HDD Smart Scan now also marks a temperature warning. I stopped usage after seeing that.

My plan is to tell the tech to transfer the HDD memory to my Secondary HDD, which is marked all Green and with no problems. But is this problem so serious it will not even be able to transfer ?

Depending on the disk, 50 celcius could be on the warmer side.

Knowing the time your HDD has been used

I meant the total hours it's been used, you can see it at the top right side in crystal disk.

Knowing if it will transfer or not, It should for now.

From personal experience, I once had a lot of problems with a disk like this, couldn't clone it, but I could transfer the files manually (although it took a lot of time).

It's ok if you want to try transferring the files by yourself, no need of a tech.

Can you post a screenshot of crystal disk, please?

 

[ashtekaros]

Depending on the disk, 50 celcius could be on the warmer side.



I meant the total hours it's been used, you can see it at the top right side in crystal disk.

Knowing if it will transfer or not, It should for now.

From personal experience, I once had a lot of problems with a disk like this, couldn't clone it, but I could transfer the files manually (although it took a lot of time).

It's ok if you want to try transferring the files by yourself, no need of a tech.

Can you post a screenshot of crystal disk, please?

Its on the tech now. so i cant show a screenshot from CrystalDisk.

The tech tried to clone it just now and it got blue screen. i instructed him to make a backup before cloning. because i really fear this HDD can break.

Whats the best method of cloning to prevent such blue screen?

 

[rgd1101]

cloning is the backup.
that the issue. you are suppose to backup before it failed.

 

[cherrysmoke]

Its on the tech now. so i cant show a screenshot from CrystalDisk.

The tech tried to clone it just now and it got blue screen. i instructed him to make a backup before cloning. because i really fear this HDD can break.

Whats the best method of cloning to prevent such blue screen?

If cloning fails even with different types of software, my best advice is to transfer the files manually through windows.
At least that's what i would do.

 

[Grobe]

If cloning fails even with different types of software, my best advice is to transfer the files manually through windows.
At least that's what i would do.

Agreed.

Just one more advice - Start copying the files most important for you. This is because you don't know the remaining life span of that hdd - it probably gets completely unreadable in very short time.