• HD Tune reports "Warning" - A serious problem?
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I just got HD Tune to check the health of my HDDs and two of them give some errors and the program marked the HDD health as "Warning". Most of it seems to be about bad sectors, and I know that bad sectors gets replaced by extra sectors, but how many is too many? I am most worried by my 40GB HDD, seeing as it is from one of my families really old (and scrapped) computers. I don't know how old it is exactly but the Seagate article on the HDD has a 2001 copyright, so it's probably around 10 years old. But It's not been constantly running, I only recently put it in my computer after several years of it lying around. I have not had any problems running the HDDs though, they work just fine with no read/write errors or anything. Here's screenshots from the program: Samsung 1TB HDD (about 2 years old): [img]http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman02/1TBHDD.png[/img] Seagate 40GB HDD: [img]http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman02/40GBHDD.png[/img]
Run the error scan if you haven't already, any red blocks means that the HDD is damaged and you'll need to replace it.
red block mean the clusters are damaged but I have a 9yo 74go maxtor HDD that has been used daily since the day it was new, 5 years ago I ran hdtune on it, there was a couple dead cluster, there is even more to this day. But the harddrive is doing just fine. It will die eventually, but I don't think you gotta replace a harddrive for small things like that
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