[SOLVED] Is my HDD going to fail soon? (Uncorrectable sector count)

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Basically Crystal Disk info states that my hdd is in the 'Caution' health status, and the uncorrectable sector count is in yellow, so far is the only issue with the drive and the Western Digital Data Lifeguard diagnostics tool says my drive passes the test, and Defraggler also says that my drive is in 'good' health.
Really I'd like for someone that actually knows about this issue to tell me if I should backup and get a new hdd or maybe keep this for a little longer, I'm planning to get a 2tb + an ssd soon anyways, but will I have to get rid of this 1tb drive though ?
I'll post the screenshots of all the results from the 3 diagnostics programs.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Darkbreeze]

You should ALWAYS have a backup, of every single important thing, in more than one place. If you wait until you see trouble on the horizon, it's usually way too late.

Forget about what you see on tv or read about, recovery of information off a failed drive is USUALLY not possible, even with the assistance of a very expensive recovery lab. Sometimes you can get some of the data back, but it will cost usually about 1500.00 just for them to look at it. Sooooo, a fifty dollar backup drive starts looking really cheap when you think about it.

Optical discs, if you have a DVD or Blu ray drive, look ok too, although you'll need to refresh those every so many years.

Bottom line, keep AT LEAST two copies going at all times of anything that's important. If that means buying some additional hardware, then that's what you do. 500gb flash drives, while not the best medium for backups, certainly are better than no backup at all, or as a temporary backup.

Based on the errors and messages you are seeing, my advice would be to STOP using that system, now, today, and get a backup drive. Copy everything of importance to the backup drive immediately before you use the drive even one more time, and then replace the failing drive with another, new one, and do a clean install of the operating system.

You do not want to clone the current OS to the new drive because as of now you have no way of really knowing if there is any corruption of files due to bad sectors OR whether the drive might fail in the middle of the operation. Too many possible bad endings. Get everything backed up, get a new drive for the OS if the OS drive is the one in question, and don't take any chances because tomorrow or the next day, a drive that was working yesterday might not be.

 

[Karadjgne]

Bad sectors = failing drive. It's not a matter of 'how long' before total failure, but more of a 'how soon' will I find it unusable. It takes exactly 1 bit of corrupted data in the master boot record and the entire drive is now useless, every piece of data now unrecoverable. Darkbreeze was not joking or being paranoid in his advice or directions, you are playing with fire with every keystroke, mouse click, cursor movement as Windows does not stop accessing the hdd at anytime other than in hibernation/deep sleep modes.

Get a new hdd Pronto.