Old HDD and Problems

[Warmuro]

Hi, i have an old PC and i had problems like hard reset. I thought it was because of the high temp processor, used termal paste to pentium 4 prescott. Temps were 60-65 idle, 75+ load, now it reduced to 40-50c. It's not overheating for now, but hard reset continued. Then, i checked the HDD status, and i saw errors, one of them was "Current Pending Sector Count" and i solved this issue by using HDD Regenerator. I used bootable DVD for it and it detected 6 bad sectors, it fixed all of them. However, when i check HDD status, there was the second error (there were just two errors, one was "Current Pending Sector Count") named "Uncorrectable Sector Count". HDD Regenerator doesn't seem to fix this error even though i could fix bad sectors. I don't know if i will have an hard reset again but at least i need to solve this error if it is possible.

HDD is Western Digital, 250gb IDE. It's extremely old, i don't know how many years passed after i bought it. So warranty is impossible.

If you are curious, here's my old system specs:

Intel Pentium 4 (prescott) 2.4ghz
ASRock P4V88+
Corsair 2 GB DDR-400 (Dual Channel)
ATI (Diamond) X1550 AGP
WD 250gb IDE
450W PSU

EDIT : I checked HDD status by using both SpeedFan and HD Tuner Pro

 

[SBMfromLA]

It actually sounds like it's time to replace that hard drive. I found another 250GB drive on Amazon for $26.
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-WD2500JB-250GB-7200RPM/dp/B000VMSZN6/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1424554542&sr=1-1&keywords=hard+drive+ide

Just copy or backup any data you have... open up your case and swap out the old one with the new one and reinstall Windows and you should be good to go.

 

[The Luggage]

Try PartitionGuru it has an option that allows you to eliminate the tracks with the bad sectors from use. This could damage any data on the disk!
This is only a stopgap measure. Your HDD is probably failing and you will need to buy a new one.

http://www.partitionguru.com/manual/VerifyandRepairBadSectors.php

 

[fzabkar]

HDD Regenerator doesn't "fix" anything. At best it causes the drive's own firmware to retest "pending" sectors and return them to service if good, or reallocate their LBAs to spare sectors if confirmed to be bad. A "current pending" sector has been identified by the drive as either unreliable or unreadable and is slated for replacement when the OS updates it with new data. When a pending sector is reallocated, the "Reallocated Sector Count" attribute is incremented.

I suspect that "Uncorrectable Sector Count" is a lifetime count, as is the Reallocated Sector Count. Therefore I would not expect it to decrease over time.

 

[Warmuro]

Thank you all for the quick answers and help