Please help! I'm having hdd issues..

[sameermokashi]

Hi friends I need help
In my pc, I'm Using 1tb wd blue internal hard drive.. yesterday I installed the crystal disk information software to know my hdd states , unfortunately I got the caution in that software it's shows that

1.c5 current pending sector count : 1
2.c6 uncorrectable sector count : 1
See https://imgur.com/a/hUFuR
I want know that count 1 errors can be fixed? Or do I need buy new hdd..
Any help will be greatly appreciated

 

[RolandJS]

You do have recent, restorable, data and OS partition backups, correct?
While I think the problem might remain minor and not get worse, I recommend ensuring recent, restorable, OS and Data partition full image backups on external media is done at least weekly, for now.

 

[RolandJS]

I forgot to mention: get educated opinions from others here because I might be wrong about the problem maybe not getting worse.

 

[sameermokashi]

Ok. But how about to fix this? It has only one (1)error count

 

[sameermokashi]

@gaius_iulius
So ur telling me that this drive will be safe? And it wont grow up bedsector in future?

 

[gaius_iulius]

I can't promise you that your drive will be safe, or that all other sectors will be good in the future, nobody can promise that ... but I can promise you that one bad sector will not influence disk performance.

 

[sameermokashi]

@gaius_iulius
About 10 days back my hdd has no issues, but i made the mistake that is i installed the hd video converter software and converted about 8gb movie h264 to h265, it takes about 15hours may be this is the probable mistake I made which leads to bedsector problem

Ok I will maintain it good by defragementing daily.. .would you like suggest me which hard drive I have to purchase for high end durability? Now My present hdd life is 6 year

 

[gaius_iulius]

Purchasing a hard drive is largely a matter of opinion and personal experience.

In general, Seagate HDDs have a lot of bad reviews these days, so that would not be my choice.

Many people really like WD drives and will only buy those.

Personally, I use Toshiba HDDs ... I have 2x 2TB Toshiba DT01ACA installed in my machine as data storage and backup drives for the SSDs, and I use 2x 5TB Toshiba Canvio external HDDs for additional storage and backups of the backups.

I have used Toshiba drives for many years now and I have never had problems with any of them ... no faulty sectors, no crashes, nothing.

But like I said, other people will have different opinions.

 

[sameermokashi]

Tq sir for ur help

 

[gaius_iulius]

You're welcome.