Is my hard drive about to fail?

[Matt_130]

I recently ran Hard Disk Sentinel and the results have me concerned. It estimates that my hard drive will fail in roughly the next 66 days. I've included the results from Hard Disk Sentinel and my most recent Chkdsk scan. The lines that are in bold are problems that Hard Disk Sentinel has flagged.

1,Raw Read Error Rate,16,100,59,OK,000000000000,0,Enabled

2,Throughput Performance,54,137,100,OK,00000000005B,0,Enabled

3,Spin Up Time,24,147,100,OK,000400FA0109,0,Enabled

4,Start/Stop Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),000000000303,0,Enabled

5,Reallocated Sectors Count,5,100,100,OK,00000006001C,0,Enabled

7,Seek Error Rate,67,100,100,OK,000000000000,0,Enabled

8,Seek Time Performance,20,136,100,OK,000000000020,0,Enabled

9,Power On Time Count,0,94,94,OK (Always passing),00000000ABB6,0,Enabled

10,Spin Retry Count,60,100,100,OK,000000000000,0,Enabled

12,Drive Power Cycle Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),000000000302,0,Enabled

183,SATA Downshift Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),000000000000,0,Enabled

184,End-to-End Error Count,97,100,100,OK,000000000000,0,Enabled

185,Vendor-specific,0,97,97,OK (Always passing),00000003FFFF,0,Enabled

187,Reported Uncorrectable Errors,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),000000040000,0,Enabled

188,Command Timeout,0,100,96,OK (Always passing),000000FB0385,0,Enabled

189,High Fly Writes,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),000000000000,0,Enabled

190,Airflow Temperature,0,69,56,OK (Always passing),00001E22001F,0,Enabled

192,Power off Retract Cycle Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),00000000034C,0,Enabled

193,Load/Unload Cycle Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),00000000034C,0,Enabled

194,Disk Temperature,0,193,139,OK (Always passing),002C000D001F,0,Enabled

196,Reallocation Event Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),000000000007,0,Enabled

197,Current Pending Sector Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),000000000008,0,Enabled

198,Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),000000000000,0,Enabled

199,Ultra ATA CRC Error Count,0,200,200,OK (Always passing),000000000000,0,Enabled

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Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is OS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...

Cleaning up instance tags for file 0x2579e.

788992 file records processed. File verification completed.

2042 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.

0 EA records processed.

64 reparse records processed.

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...

920416 index entries processed. Index verification completed.

0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered.

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...

788992 file SDs/SIDs processed.

Cleaning up 1534 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.

Cleaning up 1534 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.

Cleaning up 1534 unused security descriptors.

Security descriptor verification completed.

65713 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...

34942256 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.

CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...

Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x36a148000 for 0xa000 bytes.

Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x36a14a000 for 0x1000 bytes.

Windows replaced bad clusters in file 72620
of name \PROGRA~2\INSTAL~1\{44B2A~1\1032.mst.

Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x337839000 for 0x10000 bytes.

Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x337848000 for 0x1000 bytes.

Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x337849000 for 0x10000 bytes.

Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x337849000 for 0x1000 bytes.

Windows replaced bad clusters in file 259385
of name \PROGRA~3\NVIDIA~1\GEFORC~1\Update\GFEXPE~1\NV734E~1.DLL.

788976 files processed. File data verification completed.

CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...

163283191 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.

Adding 3 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.

Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.

Windows has made corrections to the file system.

963046399 KB total disk space.

308738424 KB in 454195 files.

251688 KB in 65714 indexes.

12 KB in bad sectors.

923511 KB in use by the system.

65536 KB occupied by the log file.

653132764 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.

240761599 total allocation units on disk.

163283191 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 0a 0c 00 f0 ee 07 00 21 e7 0d 00 00 00 00 00 ........!.......
8d 8f 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....@...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

 

[jsmithepa]

That's correct. Immediately backup as needed and stop eating lunch.

 

[jacobwilliam1985]

Hard drives form the basis of our computing. The use of computers comes down to manipulating data, and the hard drive is, of course, where we store all our data; family albums, music, work documents, email, the list goes on.

Most of the components in your computer are electronic devices. They don’t fail with time like a mechanical device such as a car. But your hard drive is one of the few mechanical devices used in modern computing, and as such, it’s destined to die eventually.

It’s important to learn to recognize the warning signs of an imminent hard drive failure, since you might not have the budget for an extensive back-up system, so you can rescue all that data before it’s lost—sometimes forever, not retrievable at any cost.