Question Is it possible to get the Weak Sector fixed?

[Doodle075]

A power outage caused my HDD to drop from 100% to 99%, 1 weak sector have found, and current pending sector count:1
Do I need to get worried or is this just a minor problem?

 

[Misgar]

You could run CHKDSK x: /F /R (where x=hard drive letter) from an elevated Command Prompt (run as Administrator). It will take some time to scan the hard disk and fix any errors, but CHKDSK might mark the weak sector as bad and remove it from the list of usable sectors.

How old is the hard disk? If it's several years old, keep an eye on the drive's health to see if any more weak/bad sectors appear. If bad sectors start growing, this is not good. If no more bad sectors appear, that's much better.

As always, keep a backup of all files you consider irreplaceable on another disk/media.

 

[TerryLaze]

Don't run checkdisk since it will destroy any files that don't conform so you might lose data.
You need a tool that will do a read write surface test that will check that weak sector to make sure which will also delete all files.
Since this happend from a blackout the sector will most probably be ok, it just got marked because the disk firmware issued a write and didn't get a response back because the power cut off.
I wouldn't do anything.