Question How accurate is crystal disk info?

[ethan.crabtree45648]

So i experienced a lot of slowdown after a windows update and after wipe and reinstall and cant format and make a new volume or partition in one of my drives. The smart test (i think thats what it is called, the wmic diskdrive command that shows drive status) said all 3 were ok but crystaldiskinfo had this to show.

https://imgur.com/a/yXop2GG

View: https://imgur.com/a/yXop2GG


Is it trustworthy over that wmic command? Should i do another fresh install after i pull it if i do? (Im worried it will leave behind corruption of some kind if i dont, idk if this is even possible tho)

 

[USAFRet]

The backstory:

Question - Windows 10 "The format could not complete successfully"

So i did a fresh install of windows 10 and everything seemed normal except for this. When i went to format my secondary drive i got this error. My os and main drives are just fine from what i can tell and my main formated like normal. I also tried used the diskpart command to set it up and that...

forums.tomshardware.com

Your drive looks like it is dying. Physically failing.
Even without that report from CDI, it is not working correctly.
There is little one can "fix" with a faulty HDD.

If we out here told you to ignore what CDI is saying, what would you do?

 

[ethan.crabtree45648]

The backstory:

Question - Windows 10 "The format could not complete successfully"

So i did a fresh install of windows 10 and everything seemed normal except for this. When i went to format my secondary drive i got this error. My os and main drives are just fine from what i can tell and my main formated like normal. I also tried used the diskpart command to set it up and that...

forums.tomshardware.com

Your drive looks like it is dying. Physically failing.
Even without that report from CDI, it is not working correctly.
There is little one can "fix" with a faulty HDD.

If we out here told you to ignore what CDI is saying, what would you do?

Sorry, i just wanted to be absolutely sure it is physically broken or corrupt before i toss it. I dont want to jump the gun on this if it is easily fixable or something software-wise is broken. I was not sure how truthful or trustworthy CDI is since wmic diskdrive get status came back clear.

 

[USAFRet]

Sorry, i just wanted to be absolutely sure it is physically broken or corrupt before i toss it. I dont want to jump the gun on this if it is easily fixable or something software-wise is broken. I was not sure how truthful or trustworthy CDI is since wmic diskdrive get status came back clear.

Is the data on it backed up to elsewhere?

That drive IS dying.
Maybe as I'm typing this, or next week, or next year.

But it IS dying.

 

[ethan.crabtree45648]

Is the data on it backed up to elsewhere?

That drive IS dying.
Maybe as I'm typing this, or next week, or next year.

But it IS dying.

I have nothing on it. I wipe everything when i do fresh installs. Im mainly worried about it messing up other things if i leave it in there. Idk if that is even possible or not, my whole pc was super unresponsive before the reinstall even though that drive was not my OS drive.

 

[USAFRet]

I have nothing on it. I wipe everything when i do fresh installs. Im mainly worried about it messing up other things if i leave it in there. Idk if that is even possible or not, my whole pc was super unresponsive before the reinstall even though that drive was not my OS drive.

Any time the system wants to access that thing, it will cause a slow down.
ex: Opening File Explorer.

 

[fzabkar]

You could sell the PCB.

 

[zinkles]

So i experienced a lot of slowdown after a windows update and after wipe and reinstall and cant format and make a new volume or partition in one of my drives. The smart test (i think thats what it is called, the wmic diskdrive command that shows drive status) said all 3 were ok but crystaldiskinfo had this to show.

https://imgur.com/a/yXop2GG

View: https://imgur.com/a/yXop2GG


Is it trustworthy over that wmic command? Should i do another fresh install after i pull it if i do? (Im worried it will leave behind corruption of some kind if i dont, idk if this is even possible tho)

Crystal Disk Info is accurate. It reads the S.M.A.R.T status of the drive to show it's approximate health. It's usually, and most of the time very accurate.

Your drive is suffering from bad sectors, meaning it's slowly dying as mentioned. The time it will die isn't fixed, so you shouldn't put any kind of data on it.

It's NOTHING that can be fixed software wise. While one software may be reporting it as good, the actually status of the drive remains unchanged. Let's say you make your own software to show the drive health as always 100%, that doesn't change the drives actual physical condition, does it.

As mentioned a couple of times, it's time you dump the drive. Noone would recommend using it either. As for your other post where you had issues formatting it, it was clear that the partition was set to RAW, and AFAIK, that's a sign of corruption, even if no data was on theere, the partition table got corrupted.

Hope you got a good understanding about this now.

 

[zinkles]

Leaving the drive in the PC wouldn't cause other components to get damaged or anything, but why keep a faulty, unformattable drive anyway.

The slowdowns, as mentioned, are cause sometimes because even if it's not your OS drive, Windows might need to access or write files there and since lf this issues, it struggles to do so and could lag.