Concerned: Caution Reallocated Sector Count

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djingi3

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Hey,
I've checked CrystalDiskInfo for the first time and it shows the health status as yellow, besides the raw values of Reallocated Sectors Count are close to the threshold value, what does it all mean? Also I'd like to know the remaining life expectancy, I guess it's dying soon?

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JaredDM
There's actually no read need to remove the drive if you don't want to. You probably aren't too concerned about every last Windows system file being copied since you're not making a bootable copy.

Just use a program like FastCopy (https://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en). Run it as Admin, and put in C:\* as the source and D:\
(or whatever letter you're copying to) as the destination folder. It'll copy everything quite quickly for you including hidden/system files.

If you do want to make a bootable clone to change the drive out, I'd recommend you use ddrescue (guide here) since it's one of the only programs good at skipping around bad sectors of failing drives.

As to what makes of drive are good, stick with Toshiba or HGST...
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JaredDM

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You should be very concerned. Not only is that a model with one of the highest failure rates of all time (the 3TB version of this drive is the record holder) but it's already developing bad sectors on you.

Copy your data off quickly and replace the drive. It's going to just stop responding soon.
 
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djingi3

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Woah ok thanks, it actually held 5 years
So how should I continue the best from here? just copy everything to a new (external?) HDD and which manufacturer/model is good?
 
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That's expected about right now given that the drive is 5 yrs old. You're actually doing pretty good to have it this long. It's a 2 yr warranty drive, and the expected fail time on standard HDDs is generally 5 years. In any case, just take the drive out completely before doing anything else. Put it in a drive caddy so that you can access it like an external drive. That will allow access to all files, which you can't access if the drive is running as a system drive. Plug the caddy into a different computer that has another drive attached with sufficient space, and then just do a wholesale copy from one drive to the other. This process sometimes fails on old drive, and it may take several tries. Whatever you do in a case of a partial copy, don't erase the new drive and start over. You want to minimize the work required of your old drive. Keep track of what's copied, and then just move down the list. You can get a drive caddy on Amazon for less than $30 dollars (link below). Good luck!

3.5in drive enclosure (USB C to A) - https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-Toolfree-External-Enclosure-Support/dp/B01A4Y0HDG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1513714296&sr=8-3&keywords=3.5%2Bdrive%2Benclosure&th=1
 
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There's actually no read need to remove the drive if you don't want to. You probably aren't too concerned about every last Windows system file being copied since you're not making a bootable copy.

Just use a program like FastCopy (https://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en). Run it as Admin, and put in C:\* as the source and D:\
(or whatever letter you're copying to) as the destination folder. It'll copy everything quite quickly for you including hidden/system files.

If you do want to make a bootable clone to change the drive out, I'd recommend you use ddrescue (guide here) since it's one of the only programs good at skipping around bad sectors of failing drives.

As to what makes of drive are good, stick with Toshiba or HGST and you can't go wrong. Western Digital drives aren't bad, but certainly not as good as Toshiba or HGST. Even WD sells HGST as their higher end drives and enterprise drives, they just re-brand them. So why go through a middleman.
 
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