Bad Sectors on New Hard Drive. What Should I Do About It?

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a101817

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I got a new laptop a month ago. However just a day ago, windows informed me that there were problems detected with the hard drive and that I should back up my data. I ran chkdsk and windows detected and repaired some sectors. However, I am concerned that if windows is telling me there is a problem now, my hard drive will fail soon.

More info:

Seatools:
shortDST test: failed
SMART test: passed

Screenshot from HD Tune with Reallocated Event Count and Current Pending Sector errors:

http://imgur.com/pAXr3Z0



 
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ronintexas
0.2% is within normal - I would run a scan in the next week or two to see if additional sectors are flagged - if it does, then I would replace the drive. In any situation, I would make sure to backup any important data immediately....
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All drives have bad sectors. "Repairing" bad sectors are marking them as bad, and "hiding" them from use. The two issues that indicate problems with the HDD are when you have a lot of them (more than 1-2% of the drive) or you test today and have some, then next week you have more, and the week after that you have more, etc....
 
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Your drive is not even close to needing to be replaced. If Smart Disk is enabled in your bios, and it usually is by default, it will alert you if sectors that will cause windows issues that will keep windows from loading. Scan disk is going to move information from sectors going bad so you don't loose any information. The red blocks are the bad sectors. So few it isn't a problem.
 
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