Recently I've noticed my HDD stays at about 3% fragmentation. I'm guessing this is a stubborn file that refuses to defragment, but since I only have one HDD on my computer, I figured it was best to check its health.
Upon booting up a program that reads S.M.A.R.T. information, I was shocked to see that there is a problem.
[b](C5) Current Pending Sector is 12[/b]
Apparently, through my research, Pending Sectors are bad sectors of HDD that are awaiting replacement on another part of the HDD. I also read that these bad sectors are moved to (05) Reallocated Sector Count after a short period of time.
Unfortunately, after a cold boot, I'm still greeted with this:
[img]http://imgur.com/FyGlC.png[/img]
This HDD is a 3 year old "WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive" with a high power on hours count.
Should I prepared for a new HDD?
This doesn't necessarily mean that it's failing, but back up your data now.
You can also run "chkdsk /b" if you want. I'm not sure if this will effect smart data, but I think it rechecks each sector for bad data.
I'm try chkdsk now. Thanks.
Ran chkdsk overnight. It found failures. It seemed to repair them.
[code]Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x34569d4000 for 0x4000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x34569d7000 for 0x1000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x34569e1000 for 0x10000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x34569e7000 for 0x1000 bytes.
Windows replaced bad clusters in file 55072
of name \PROGRA~1\STARCR~1\CAMPAI~1\LIBERT~2.SC2\BASE~3.SC2.
250224 files processed. File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
48431872 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.
Adding 2 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.[/code]
[b]But now Current Pending sectors is 19.[/b]
chkdsk /F?
You should probably start preparing for a failure.
[QUOTE=a-k-t-w;26157369]chkdsk /F?[/QUOTE]
chkdsk /b includes /f.
[QUOTE=Murkrow;26157421]You should probably start preparing for a failure.[/QUOTE]
Just ordered a new HDD this morning.
I found out the warranty on my HDD was 3 years long. 3 years was 2 weeks ago... go figure.
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