Smart Problem with WD caviar 500gb :(

[carboncallate]

hello first of all i want to thank you guys in advance because i know you will help me

i have a western digital caviar 500gb (no warranty). in my country its really expensive right now to get a hard drive.

today i got Smart status bad: backup and replace.

i used hd sentinel to scan it and this is what it told me:

power on 609 days, health 0%
failure predicted - attribute 5
rellocated sectors count
there are 637 bad sectors on the disk surface
the contents of these sectors were moved to the spare área.
based on the number of remapping operations, the bad sectors may form continuous áreas.
problema occurred between the comunication of the disk and the host 19919 times
replace hard disk immediately.


now based on the info on buying power on my country at this moment (1 month of salary right now is around 15 usd) i want to try the most to recover or repair it.


please what method do you recomend me?

ive read about hdd regenerator and doing a low level format to it. will this help? in what order should i do it? first the low level format or first the hdd regen? (of course all after i back up the data)


or what other method do you recomend me?

thanks again sorry for the Wall of text.

 

[13thmonkey]

if it is going it is going, backup what is important to you, you can carry on using it, but you might find the next time you try and read or write it fails. I wouldn't expect that a 'regenerator' or a low level format will do a lot. The firmware is recognising issues.

The 19919 issues might be a bad cable...

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there carboncallate,

That is really unpleasant.
I would agree with 13thmonkey. The first thing you need to do is to back up the data stored on the drive, as it could fail at any time. Yet, on the other hand, it could last for quite some time.

As these bad sectors are most probably hardware ones, low level format would not help.(this could help when the bad sectors are software ones) If the HDD is running just fine, there's no need for that.

D_Know_WD