Question HDD health critical - solution?

[Midhun Kumar]

https://imgur.com/a/6lCFutI

My hdd shows up like this. What's wrong with my hdd? how to repair it?

 

[USAFRet]

Step 1. Back up your data
Step 2. Replace the drive

 

[SkyNetRising]

My hdd shows up like this. What's wrong with my hdd? how to repair it?

Can you show SMART section from same app?

 

[zinkles]

https://imgur.com/a/6lCFutI

My hdd shows up like this. What's wrong with my hdd? how to repair it?

No to be rude or anything, but what kind of reply were you expecting when you said "how to repair it"?

Its not something that can be done using some software or anything, the drive is physically showing signs of degradation and probable failure, thus the health.

Bad sectors = Its unable to access those parts of the drive, you've got 780 of 'em! = BAD.

I'd point out that's a lot of start/stop in a given period. my old drive was at half of that, while being powered on for 1000+ days. (4 times less than yours!)

Anyhow, since your OS is also on that drive, you should backup the stuff, and watch the ship sink.

 

[Midhun Kumar]

I have some doubts
Is it possible to somehow restore the health of my hdd?
What's bad sector? Something that can be solved using chkdsk, softwares, etc?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Is it possible to somehow restore the health of my hdd?
What's bad sector? Something that can be solved using chkdsk, softwares, etc?

Asking you the 2nd time.
Please show screenshot with SMART section from Hard Disk Sentinel.

 

[madaraosenpai]

Is it possible to somehow restore the health of my hdd?

NO.

Software cannot overcome hardware. There is no button you can press to "restore the health" of your hard drive. Physical degradation of the platters is PHYSICAL, IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE. You can't wave a magic wand at it to make it go away, and you can't replace the platters without losing the data (the platters hold the data and they're also sensitive to contamination) so at that point you should just replace the entire thing. Best "repair" you can do is replace a bad i/o head but that's not your issue here.

Hard drives are wear parts. When they show signs of age you are expected to replace them and then dispose of them. This has been true since forever. If you continue using the same hard drive it will eventually die and you will lose everything.

Buy a new 1TB drive ASAP, stop booting from the old one. With both drives connected through SATA use a tool like Clonezilla to copy the contents of one to the other. Boot from the new drive to make sure everything works and then recycle your old one.

What's bad sector? Something that can be solved using chkdsk, softwares, etc?

Bad sectors are unusable areas of the disk that have become damaged, either the data on them is corrupt and unstable ("logical bad sector"), or that location in the drive has literally been destroyed ("physical bad sector").

A few of them is normal. Having too many of these is a bad sign. You have 780 of them and that's only the ones that are dying.

Software can't magically make a physical bad sector go away. Logical bad sectors might become good again after being repaired or after a complete system wipe, but a physical bad sector cannot. If you have lots of physical bad sectors then it means the drive is suffering from mechanical failure, lots of logical ones might be bit flip or data rot.

 

[zinkles]

I have some doubts
Is it possible to somehow restore the health of my hdd?
What's bad sector? Something that can be solved using chkdsk, softwares, etc?

Please read though this thread again. It was mentioned a couple of times that this isn't possible.

let's say you modified some software to "show" 100% health. that doesn't change the actual condition of the drive does it? It's like telling a extremely sick patient that he's alright (he's not).

 

[Satan-IR]

As said above, once a hard drive starts to show up like this (they check their health; SMART = Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) this can not be undone. That means the drive is not repairable. If there were a few logical bad sectors you could scan and mark them as bad so the drive doesn't use them but but 780 means the drive is dying.

If you haven't already done it backup irreplacable data (if you're lucky and the drive does not die during!) and replace it.

Also I wouldn't use an SSD as drive E: and choose the system drive to be a very old hard drive. I'm assuming C: is the system/Windows drive and also that the System Reserve is on E.

It seems old because HD Sentinel says it's been turned on a off 4,737 times.

Also as said above a shot of the SMART tab would give a better picture of the situation, which again, at this stage is beyond repair.