Is my hdd dying?

[Moonpie94]

Victoria 4.46 shows me 05 reallocated sectors counts' raw value = 5432. And it's increasing for about 60 a day! Does this mean my hdd is dying?

 

[laviniuc]

yep. back up your data as soon as possible and be prepared to get a replacement for when it fails.

 

[dish_moose]

^+1 I say not soon - back up your precious stuff now.
-Bruce

 

[USAFRet]

^^ "Now", as in tonight.

 

[Moonpie94]

For how long do you think it would still work? How much time do I have?

 

[laviniuc]

no way to tell. can die tonight or 1 year from now. backup started?

 

[dish_moose]

I cannot give you a definite - do it now before you turn it off and then you are safe. I've seen too many people bring a computer or external HDD and ask if I can get data off of them - too often I can't.
-Bruce

 

[USAFRet]

For how long do you think it would still work? How much time do I have?

It might die while you are reading this. Or next week. Or next year.

Do you feel lucky?

 

[Moonpie94]

Not yet, I'm buying external hdd tomorrow. Hope mine won't fail till then 😛

 

[Moonpie94]

Guys, you are scaring the sh*t out of me 🙁

 

[laviniuc]

guess we know who-s not sleeping tonight 😀. save the irreplaceable data to a flash drive for now. just in case.
(btw we(or atleast i am)'re joking a bit, there's no reason to panic it will last)

 

[Moonpie94]

So I guess that's it then. Thank you for your answers. Looks like I've found a way how to spend my savings -_-

 

[USAFRet]

Guys, you are scaring the sh*t out of me 🙁

This is why many of us, and everyone should, have a backup solution.

For instance...if my C drive were to die right now, I've lost nothing critical. Just have to reinstall the OS and applications. All the data lives elsewhere. And if the SSD that holds my "Documents" dies....all of that is already copied over to another drive.
The entire Music library lives on two different PC's.
Personal pictures live on 3 different drives. One of them completely offsite. I could never recreate a picture of my grandson at age 2.

If my main PC were to go up in smoke right now, taking 4 drives with it (2 x SSD and 2 x HDD)....I would be back up and running in 48 hours. With zero loss of data.

 

[Moonpie94]

Well, you're much more superior than me in this situation, if my hdd fails now, I'm losing everything once and for all.

 

[USAFRet]

Well, you're much more superior than me in this situation, if my hdd fails now, I'm losing everything once and for all.

Noooo, not superior. LOL. Just have had seen this, and have had it happen before.

 

[laviniuc]

Well, you're much more superior than me in this situation, if my hdd fails now, I'm losing everything once and for all.

Noooo, not superior. LOL. Just have had seen this, and have had it happen before.

yep moonpie, consider yourself lucky, you'll be fine and end up just with a whole in the wallet. every one of us has seen hdd-s fail and i'm sure most are keeping backups because this same happened to them too. i'm pretty sure you'll never be caught in this situation any time soon.

 

[Moonpie94]

And I've never had something like this before, and who knew this would happen to 1,5 years old laptop.

 

[laviniuc]

even better it's in warranty 😀 you are even luckier then, no hole in the wallet either.

 

[Moonpie94]

even better it's in warranty 😀 you are even luckier then, no hole in the wallet either.

You mean to tell me this is a warranty case?! Really? That would be so good to be true 😛

 

[USAFRet]

even better it's in warranty 😀 you are even luckier then, no hole in the wallet either.

You mean to tell me this is a warranty case?! Really? That would be so good to be true 😛

1.5 year old laptop? Yes, the drive is probably still under warranty.

 

[Moonpie94]

even better it's in warranty 😀 you are even luckier then, no hole in the wallet either.

You mean to tell me this is a warranty case?! Really? That would be so good to be true 😛

1.5 year old laptop? Yes, the drive is probably still under warranty.

They would take it? Won't they just say something like "it's not defective, you broke it yourself and we are not gonna fix that"?

 

[USAFRet]

even better it's in warranty 😀 you are even luckier then, no hole in the wallet either.

You mean to tell me this is a warranty case?! Really? That would be so good to be true 😛

1.5 year old laptop? Yes, the drive is probably still under warranty.

They would take it? Won't they just say something like "it's not defective, you broke it yourself and we are not gonna fix that"?

Bad sectors = bad drive. It happens. Where did you buy it from?

 

[Moonpie94]

even better it's in warranty 😀 you are even luckier then, no hole in the wallet either.

You mean to tell me this is a warranty case?! Really? That would be so good to be true 😛

1.5 year old laptop? Yes, the drive is probably still under warranty.

They would take it? Won't they just say something like "it's not defective, you broke it yourself and we are not gonna fix that"?

Bad sectors = bad drive. It happens. Where did you buy it from?

Russian tech store similar to Best Buy.

 

[USAFRet]

even better it's in warranty 😀 you are even luckier then, no hole in the wallet either.

You mean to tell me this is a warranty case?! Really? That would be so good to be true 😛

1.5 year old laptop? Yes, the drive is probably still under warranty.

They would take it? Won't they just say something like "it's not defective, you broke it yourself and we are not gonna fix that"?

Bad sectors = bad drive. It happens. Where did you buy it from?

Russian tech store similar to Best Buy.

Can't hurt to ask. New hard drives are usually 3-5 years warranty. I have no experience with Russian stores.

 

[Moonpie94]

even better it's in warranty 😀 you are even luckier then, no hole in the wallet either.

You mean to tell me this is a warranty case?! Really? That would be so good to be true 😛

1.5 year old laptop? Yes, the drive is probably still under warranty.

They would take it? Won't they just say something like "it's not defective, you broke it yourself and we are not gonna fix that"?

Bad sectors = bad drive. It happens. Where did you buy it from?

Russian tech store similar to Best Buy.

Can't hurt to ask. New hard drives are usually 3-5 years warranty. I have no experience with Russian stores.

I guess I need to find papers for my laptop, to find out. But I think I'm not going to do that, because what I've actually remembered is that warranty repair takes 40 days, and that's not acceptable right now. I guess there's no way to avoid hole in my wallet) So anyway, thank you again for your help, I really appreciate it