HDDscan possible HDD problems?

[cj133]

I've had some serious problems with Windows 7 lately and my boot manager getting damaged. I also noticed my SMART data showing bad a few bad sectors I don't remember.


This is a scan of my C and D drive which is disk 1 but I'm not sure if this is the actual disc, or something the OS was doing while I was in bed. I had absolutely nothing running but the timing of it seems odd.

I've been having some problems with things taking forever to open like Chrome. Just click on it and go away for a few minutes but I assumed I just needed to reinstall a fresh copy of windows and have been putting it off. I have a new 250GB SSD and a 1TB mechanical drive coming today and planning on switching to Linux but I'm trying to figure out if this drive is actually shot or not.

Other than Windows running a surprise checkdisk after rebooting for some updates and then losing the boot manager I haven't lost any data that I've found out about yet.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Bad sectors is a sign that the hard drive is starting to fail.
How many physical hard disks are there in your system?, because the hard disk containing Windows is usually Disk 0, not Disk 1.

 

[DeathRabit]

Use HD tune http://www.hdtune.com/ and rus error scan * do not use fast mode 😉

 

[cj133]

Bad sectors is a sign that the hard drive is starting to fail.
How many physical hard disks are there in your system?, because the hard disk containing Windows is usually Disk 0, not Disk 1.

Three disks right now, two identical 1TB Hitatchi's which this is one of, and a tiny SSD which I have Minecraft on.
I can't remember why Disk 1 ended up my OS drive, but that appears to be the case. Disk 0 just has music and pictures on it and I'm running a scan on it at home as we speak. That too has quite a few bad sectors, I think in the neighborhood of 400+ according to the SMART data which is impressive as it's hardly ever used. From what I saw of the scan in the short amount of time before I left, it looked a lot better than disk 1 as it seemed to be more flat and all near the top of the graph. I won't know for sure until I get home tonight when the scan is done though. That, and like I said, how much does the OS being on the drive effect the scan?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

"how much does the OS being on the drive effect the scan?"

It affects it a great deal, that's why when you scan the boot drive for bad sectors with Windows checkdisk, it always scans before Windows loads because you can't check the boot drive properly while Windows is running on it.

For accurate results you should always test the boot drive with diagnostic software that loads from a bootable CD, eg the DOS version of the drive manufacturer's own diagnostic software.

For Hitachi drives that means using Drive Fitness Test, of which the CD image for the DOS version is here:
https://www.hgst.com/support/downloads/legacy-downloads#DFT

To create a CD from the CD image you can use IMGBurn: http://filehippo.com/download_imgburn

Then boot your PC from that CD.

 

[cj133]

"how much does the OS being on the drive effect the scan?"

It affects it a great deal, that's why when you scan the boot drive for bad sectors with Windows checkdisk, it always scans before Windows loads because you can't check the boot drive properly while Windows is running on it.

For accurate results you should always test the boot drive with diagnostic software that loads from a bootable CD, eg the DOS version of the drive manufacturer's own diagnostic software.

For Hitachi drives that means using Drive Fitness Test, of which the CD image for the DOS version is here:
https://www.hgst.com/support/downloads/legacy-downloads#DFT

To create a CD from the CD image you can use IMGBurn: http://filehippo.com/download_imgburn

Then boot your PC from that CD.

Thanks for responding.
I had a feeling that was the case as the diagnostic software from Hitachi didn't allow scanning the OS drive from within Windows.

 

[cj133]

By the way, what is the little up and down arrow with a number on the right side of each post. Is that for giving a thank you?

 

[cj133]

Well,

There you have it.

The first hard drive I've ever had fail going all the way back to my autoparking IBM 30MB MFM drives from 1986 that I ran until 1994. The Hitachi software passed my second drive which has a few bad sectors but apparently is still fine. I assume read element failure means a head is either failing, or has failed?