Hi to everybody!
I have a Samsung 1.5 GB hard drive (HD154UI).
I had it inside my computer as a secondary hard drive, not for windows, just extra data, and when I ran a few smart tests from different software I found that it was in "Warning" health, because it had 3 "Pending unstable sectors". I contacted Samsung for RMA, and they sent me all the necessary modules to send it.
Before sending it to them I ran a Zero Fill overwrite from HDTune Pro, and now after 16 hours of writing, it completed.
Now if you check the S.M.A.R.T. status it says OK, the pending sectors are gone, and there is no reallocated sector.
Is the hard drive still damaged or is it magically better now? Should I still send it to Samsung?
These are the screenshots before the ZeroFill:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8075278/old1.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8075278/old2.png
These are the screenshots after:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8075278/new1.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8075278/new2.png
Thanks in advance to all!!
I have a Samsung 1.5 GB hard drive (HD154UI).
I had it inside my computer as a secondary hard drive, not for windows, just extra data, and when I ran a few smart tests from different software I found that it was in "Warning" health, because it had 3 "Pending unstable sectors". I contacted Samsung for RMA, and they sent me all the necessary modules to send it.
Before sending it to them I ran a Zero Fill overwrite from HDTune Pro, and now after 16 hours of writing, it completed.
Now if you check the S.M.A.R.T. status it says OK, the pending sectors are gone, and there is no reallocated sector.
Is the hard drive still damaged or is it magically better now? Should I still send it to Samsung?
These are the screenshots before the ZeroFill:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8075278/old1.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8075278/old2.png
These are the screenshots after:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8075278/new1.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8075278/new2.png
Thanks in advance to all!!