[SOLVED] HDD caution

[blasting]

Is my HDD failing and can i fix it
https://ibb.co/7j4RQxc

 

[Colif]

Yes
No, you can't fix it

Briefly, the ‘Current Pending Sector Count’ warning indicates imminent drive failure and requires urgent backup & recovery followed by hard drive or SSD replacement.

How to Fix Current Pending Sector Count Warning

Briefly, the ‘Current Pending Sector Count’ warning indicates imminent drive failure and requires urgent backup & recovery followed by…

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Uncorrectable Sector Count - Hdd have a certain number of spare sectors it can use if one is corrupted. It appears you may have very few if any left and once it has none, it can't fix any errors that occur.

Buy a new hdd now and use it to replace that one. Backup any info you cannot afford to lose now.

 

[SkyNetRising]

2 pending sectors doesn't mean - the drive is going to die immediately.

And yes - pending sectors can be resolved. They get tested by overwriting and then, depending on result, either get relocated or assumed fine (pending status cleared).

You can resolve pending sectors with mhdd (scan with relocate on). Also can be done with victoria software.

BTW - chkdsk doesn't fix pending sectors.

 

[blasting]

Thank you all for the quick reply. I'm going to try and fix it, HDD is not even 1 year old. Thanks for the software recommendation, I'm running the Victoria test and repair, we will see how it goes. But I'll do backup and buy a new HDD just in case.

 

[blasting]

Yes
No, you can't fix it

Briefly, the ‘Current Pending Sector Count’ warning indicates imminent drive failure and requires urgent backup & recovery followed by hard drive or SSD replacement.

How to Fix Current Pending Sector Count Warning

Briefly, the ‘Current Pending Sector Count’ warning indicates imminent drive failure and requires urgent backup & recovery followed by…

medium.com

Uncorrectable Sector Count - Hdd have a certain number of spare sectors it can use if one is corrupted. It appears you may have very few if any left and once it has none, it can't fix any errors that occur.

Buy a new hdd now and use it to replace that one. Backup any info you cannot afford to lose now.

Thanks for the info, btw, WD dashboard diagnostic says everything is fine after running SMART scan, both short and extended and drive health appears to be normal, strange.