Yes unfortunately your hard drive is... dying. Backup asap as many data as you can and secure delete its contents once you're done.
These sectors are bad and there's nothing you can do to fix them, but replacing the drive itself...
You may also keep the drive as a temp storage device for stuff you download from the internet and you don't care that much if you lose them. If you're lucky those sectors may remain as is for a long time, but I wouldn't risk it if it's the main drive which has the OS inside!
GL!
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I have an HDD like this. After 4 years of usage, it started making weird clicky sounds and stalling OSes while opening. When I unplug and don't use the disk OS performing was also increased. It was my main storage (I always keep OSes on other disk) but because of this some of the processes were kinda freezing. After looking at SMART logs I thought it was dying, so I used it only as a second Steam storage, something I wouldn't mind if it dies. It's been 10 years now and the disk even worse nowadays, a lot of bad sectors etc. It's weirdly still kicking but not something dependable of course. Though I'm not using it anymore.
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quick, back up your porn before its gone forever.
but ya no, time to start looking for new hd.
solid states are good, but at least mechanical's show symptoms b4 dieing. my ssd died out of the blue as my mech started crying b4 i sent it the way of old yeller
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That p0rn backup gave me some good laughs @ almost 4 A.M. :)))
God bless you!
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Definitely on it's way out. 5 years isn't optimal, but also not a surprising life length.
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Yep, time for a new one.
Once you start getting bad sectors (Reallocated Sectors Count), they tend to propagate quickly.
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you can save your data as quickly as possible once done you can try to replace the defective sectors (all hard drives have a reserve of sector) and for the replacement I strongly advise you to buy 2 copies of the replacement hard drive to make a RAID 1 !! so you will be covered in the event of premature death or in the event of a defective hard drive
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PS I have a hdd with 180 bad sector since more than 2 years and it works still good
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I have a similar HDD with 30 something reallocated sectors running just fine for over 2 years, that is until yesterday when it decided not to! (it's a not boot drive, I use it to store videos and games)
This is a warning sign and you should proceed with caution, you might see more bad sectors as you keep using it, and the drive could eventually fail (could be days/months/years), so you seriously consider extracting any important data off of it.
Once you start having a few bad sectors it's usually a sign there are more... You see the only way for sure to find all bad sectors is to do a pass over the whole drive (a surface test: for every sector save the original value, write random patterns, read them back and compare, finally restore original value), in doing so if the drive detects any reading errors and if it was over the ECC threshold and cannot be corrected, the drive mark the sector as bad and tries to reallocate it using its pool of spare sectors.
However if the drive is on its last legs and you perform such a deep scan, it could expose many more weak sectors beyond what the drive can recover from and ends up completely dead... I guess what I'm saying is if the drive is reaching its end-of-life, and you still haven't took a back of your data, do not run a chkdsk /r on it ;)
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Move quickly to back that up and get rid of it. It might die tomorrow, or in a month, who knows but it is on its last legs and from the looks of it there are no more free sectors for it to reallocate to.
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For future reference, how can you tell there's no free sectors to reallocate? Is it because of the Uncorrectable Sector count?
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Honestly, just personal experience. I'm no expert, but when I see 100 sectors have already been reallocated and another 100 are waiting to be reallocated, I kind of make the assumption.
Ive seen enough drives crap out with less, so my money would be on that the drive is literally going to start crashing any system at any given moment. I mean even 1 bad sector is too many, having 100 waiting and 100 already reallocated makes me wonder a lot of things, maybe the SMART readings are wrong? But he did say he heard strange noises as well, which makes me believe the numbers are accurate and the SMART readings only go so high.
If it was 1 or even 10 bad sectors, maybe try to reformat all zeroes and see if you can force the reallocation. With 100 though? Eh..
But yeah, I would abandon ship on that one, wouldn't even use it as an external drive.
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from my experience: as soon as you start losing sectors chances are almost 100% that the drive will die very, very soon. and i mean really soon.
it's best to not turn off the computer and start moving the files now. or better: use a guaranteed good backup from the not-so-distant past for recovery.
chances are you won't be able to move much data. most of the time bad sectors only show up when you want to read the sectors and if you try to read all the sectors to backup the data you will start finding more bad ones very quickly and by the ton.
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I had a very similar experience recently. Weird mechanical noises coming from the HDD, programs running from that drive hanging, freezing and sometimes crashing the PC. Fortunately, I have Windows and most of my games installed on my main drive, which is SSD, so I avoided the "fun" of reinstalling the OS. It took me some time to figure out what's happening, but as soon as I was positive that my hard drive is failing, I backed up all the necessary data. Yet still was too lazy to buy a new drive, hesitated for a month, just avoiding running games and stuff from the faulty drive. Amazingly, by the time I replaced the HDD, it still was somewhat functional. But I would hesitate to advise you to put as much hope in your drive. It is very unfortunate when something like this happens, and it takes time to back up the data and replace the drive, yet it needs to be done.
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To give a more thorough explanation, once the Reallocated Sectors Count starts rising, that means the disk is trying to shift data around because there are bad sectors on the disk. The more you use the disk, the worse it's going to get. The RSC will keep rising until the disk just dies, it's just something that can't be fixed.
This happened to me on 2 different disks, so the best advice, as people have already pointed out, is to back up the data as soon as possible and pray that you don't lose much of it.
I'd add that it might be a good idea to zero the HDD (that means set every bit to zero, effectively wiping the disk) before throwing it away in a proper manner (some stores take broken equipment for proper recycling).
Don't just trash it.
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if you.
- The power was forcibly shut down. (Power outage)
- I gave a shock to my computer.
- Overclocking etc. were performed.
- The other parts of the computer are out of order.
Doesn't it correspond to events 1 to 4?
If the status of the hard disk is as shown in the image in the non-applicable state, it is recommended to save the data early.
The read/write failure may be due to the hard disk chip dying.
Or, the action of 1-4 may indicate a cable break or poor contact.
Quickly! 💻ヽ(Θ`ヽ≡ Hurry UP! ≡ノ´Θ)ノ💻
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PS: If your hard disk is still under warranty, let's hide your "serial number".
A third party could misuse it for information exploitation or fictitious billing for alternatives.
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Typically bad sectors are caused by mechanical (physical) damage over time, 'wear and tear' as they say.
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Usually that's right.(o'Θ'))yup yup
Human beings are used in various environments, so confirmation is important.
There is a human being I was involved in trying to bring a computer to the sauna.💦🔥💦
Therefore, the number of events has increased.XD
In any case, the correct answer is to back up immediately. Yes(｡･Θ･)(･ω･｡)True
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i think his computer was taken over by a cucumber eating monster and he didnt pay proper tribute.
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i really hope that external HDD isn't a seagate one.
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Backup everything first for safe measure. Prioritize the important stuff first, in case something goes wrong in the process of it. Other than that, nice new profile pic. (that is basically the reason I replied to this thread on the first place lol)
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my SSD died not long ago, since that i keep some documents, important pictures on google drive.
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THIS.. i cant stress this enough.. google drive will literally let you host dam near anything forever.. and they mean forever.
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O (ﾟΘ。ﾉ) h...!? 💣💻🔥
It seems to be logically damaged.
My intuition suggests that the hard disk chips are finally over.
You already have a backup, right?
All right? Was good.
Then you don't need this.
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(*´-Θ-)-３May peaceful days come back.
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CAUTION in big letters, in yellow.
What do you think that would mean?
Western Digital never gave me any way problems (knocks on wood), brand can really matter on hdd's.
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