Hdd droping from 100% to 0% health in hdd sentinel. Help please

borko3fkovix

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Hello, so ive recently bought this hdd because the one im currently using is pretty old and broken, and i had to buy an used one because new ones are really expenisve here. So ive bought one with about 400 days of power on time, and it was perfect in hdd sentinel and i wanted to put an OS on it. So i make an usb bootable, disconnect other hdd to avoid error and such.
Installation was for Win10. I deleted the partitions it had previously and made new ones and set setup to run. But setup has failed due to an error and i come back to my old hdd with winXP on it to hdd sentinel to see that it has 0% health with this message:

Failure Predicted - Attribute: 5 Reallocated Sectors Count, Count of sectors moved to the spare area. Indicate problem with the disk surface or the read/write heads.
There are 741 bad sectors on the disk surface. The contents of these sectors were moved to the spare area.
Based on the number of remapping operations, the health of the disk was decreased in different steps.
There are 23 weak sectors found on the disk surface. They may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk.
Replace hard disk immediately.
 
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Once you start remapping, the disk is beginning to fail, just the bad luck of the draw unfortunately as to when. With 741 bad sectors, it definitely has problems. In the future, if you ever need to buy used HDDs, try and find some enterprise grade drives. Many times for enterprise grade drives they'll replace them on a fixed schedule vs an actual failure and they can have quite a bit of life left. Plus they have additional features for keeping them stable during operation at the firmware level.

After all is said and done, a used enterprise grade drive is one that I would probably trust more than a new Seagate 3TB DM001 drive or WD Green drive...

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Once you start remapping, the disk is beginning to fail, just the bad luck of the draw unfortunately as to when. With 741 bad sectors, it definitely has problems. In the future, if you ever need to buy used HDDs, try and find some enterprise grade drives. Many times for enterprise grade drives they'll replace them on a fixed schedule vs an actual failure and they can have quite a bit of life left. Plus they have additional features for keeping them stable during operation at the firmware level.

After all is said and done, a used enterprise grade drive is one that I would probably trust more than a new Seagate 3TB DM001 drive or WD Green drive...
 
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