[SOLVED] S.M.A.R.T Hard Drive detects error.

[pabanil01arvin]

Hello, I'm a newbie here from this forum and this is my first post.

Anyway, as on the title shown.

S.M.A.R.T Hard Drive detects error
Please consider backing up the hatd drive.
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This error appears when I started to upgrade (I didn't Clean Install) my NEC laptop from Windows 7 to 10. Then every time I boot up. This error appears. It also makes my laptop very slow. I tried to go in safe mode and it was just good and fast. I've searched and I found out that the reason is my HDD has bad sectors. From now on I'm doing a full format to remove those bad sectors.
My question is, Is that bad sectors really the reason why I'm having the error? I also tried installing back to Windows 7. And it warns me when I'm trying to install. "Windows can't be install on this drive. The disk may fail soon" I forgot the exact error but its like that. So I didn't continue installing Windows 7. Instead, I just removed temporarily my OS and using my Windows 7 Installation Disk to full format my HDD with CMD. Is there another way to fix my problem?
Sorry for bad english.

 

[little_me]

Bad sectors, if they are really bad, cannot be fixed, they are dead, physically.
format will not really do a thing on bad sectors, chkdsk /B will retest them so see if they are really bad or if it was just an error.

It is pretty safe to say that your disk is breaking and consider backing up anything you want to keep before it fails for good.
both hwinfo https://www.hwinfo.com/download/ and crystaldiskinfo https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/ can read SMART data and tell you in more depth what is supposedly wrong.

If bad sectors exist, it's 99% likely just a countdown until total doom of the disk.