Reallocated Event Count SMART Warning

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Thorah

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Hello,

My laptop internal hard drive was having problems for the past few weeks. Like causing Windows and other applications slowing down or suddenly not responding. I checked it's SMART status using Crystal Disk Info and found that it was labeled as Caution. There were 32 Current Pending Sector Count and 52 Reallocation Event Count.

I tried to fix it using HDAT2 Ver. 5.0 with Detect and Fix Bad Sector > Verify - Write - Verify. It detected 4 bad sectors with detail: Uncorrectable Data Error. After the test, it managed to fix all the detected bad sectors. Looking at the SMART values again Current Pending Sector Count is now back to 0. All the other SMART values are OK, except for Reallocated Event Count which has the same value and is labeled with an Error from HDAT2.

I'm concerned about the Reallocated Event Count. Is there anything I could do about it?
I need advice as to what I should do next.
 
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Boogieman_WD
Hey Thorah.
Unfortunately there's nothing you can do when an HDD starts to fail. When bad sectors start to occur, this would inevitably bring the drive to an end eventually. And to make it even worse, it's impossible to tell when this is going to happen - it could be days, weeks, months or even years. :(
If your system's having trouble already, I wouldn't risk using it, if I were you. I'd suggest that you RMA it, if it's still under warranty, otherwise - get a new one and use this as storage space for non valuable data until it dies completely.
You should also backup your most important data (if you haven't done that already) as soon as possible, just to be on the safe side.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
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Hey Thorah.
Unfortunately there's nothing you can do when an HDD starts to fail. When bad sectors start to occur, this would inevitably bring the drive to an end eventually. And to make it even worse, it's impossible to tell when this is going to happen - it could be days, weeks, months or even years. :(
If your system's having trouble already, I wouldn't risk using it, if I were you. I'd suggest that you RMA it, if it's still under warranty, otherwise - get a new one and use this as storage space for non valuable data until it dies completely.
You should also backup your most important data (if you haven't done that already) as soon as possible, just to be on the safe side.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
 
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Thorah

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Thank you for the answer.
Sadly the HDD is no longer under warranty.
I've backed up everything before doing the tests so no problems there.
I'll try picking up a new internal drive before this month ends.
 
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