[SOLVED] Is my HDD dying? please advise on health status, wmic and crystaldiskinfo conflicting

Jmusic88

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I am preparing to migrate my HDD to SSD, and while backing it up, I decided to get a health check on the drive. I used Crystaldiskinfo and wmic to check the state of the drive. However they do not "match", I get conflicting information.

With Crystaldiskinfo, the status is "Caution", and its yellow at C5 (current pending sector count), whatever that means. Yet with wmic I get a status of "OK". Could anyone please advise on what the state of my HDD? I was planning on using it as a secondary storage drive once I migrate to SSD, but now I am doubting. Link below is a screenshot of crystaldiskinfo and the values of my drive.

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


Thank you in advance.
 
Solution
Download and run a program called "Hard Disk Sentinel" to check the health of your HDD.

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