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August 9th, 2014 19:00
HDD Problem: Current Pending Sector count and Heating
I checked my HDD status with Crystal Disk Info and it seems like i am in trouble.
It shows
Current Pending Sector count: 3
current uncorrectable sector count: 3
I think it is also heating up (48 degree celsius) more than recommended and creates some noise while running,
here is the screenshot.
Is there anyway to correct those pending/uncorrectable sectors. as it is heating do i need to open my laptop and clean the hardware part once, haven't clean it since i bought it three years back.
osprey4
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August 11th, 2014 17:00
Hi SymbianBelle,
Normally the appearance of bad sectors is an indication that the drive has begun to fail. As long as you are maintaining regular backups, you could continue to use the drive until it dies. If you'd prefer to avoid the suspense, replace it.
Sachin Varma
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August 12th, 2014 00:00
The best option is to replace the HDD. I had faced similar issue which ended up finally my hard disk going dead 2 days back. Now i need to buy new hard disk. Luckily i take backup of my endtire disk regularly because of which i didnt loose data, but many of my files esp, big files like ISO Image files have gone corrupted.
If you continue to use a HDD with bad sectors, note that data could also be written in bad sectors, unless you do a low level format and inform windows to ignore the bad sectors in the HDD.
Hence dont take a chance and better change the HDD, now a days they are pretty cheap, you can get the cheapest 500GB HDD for $70 easily.