Bad sector help

[vertical777]

hi, i recently ran HD tune to scan my drive and it found 0.1% bad sectors

WD lifeguard utility smart test fails, extended test finds bad sectors but could not fix it. all smart stats OK
win7 error checking found no problems on the drive.
HD tune all smart stats ok, found 0.1% bad sectors.

funny thing is there is 0 reallocation attempts count in SMART
and there are 54 sectors pending.

how do i make it reallocate the sectors?

HD Tune: WDC WD10EALS-00Z8A0 Health

ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 199 199 51 7235 Ok
(03) Spin Up Time 178 171 21 4066 Ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 98 98 0 2740 Ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 200 200 140 0 Ok
(07) Seek Error Rate 100 253 0 0 Ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 89 89 0 8176 Ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 0 0 Ok
(0B) Calibration Retry Count 100 100 0 0 Ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 99 99 0 1721 Ok
(C0) Power Off Retract Count 200 200 0 344 Ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 200 200 0 2395 Ok
(C2) Temperature 109 85 0 38 Ok
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 200 200 0 0 Ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 200 200 0 54 Ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 200 200 0 47 Ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 Ok
(C8) Write Error Rate 200 196 0 49 Ok

Power On Time : 8176
Health Status : Ok

 

[canadian69]

IF the WD util fails the SMART test you should see those errors in any utility you run and maybe even in the system BIOS (if supported). I do not know any way to force a reallocation in Windows. My understanding is that whenever these sectors are remapped it is detrimental to drive efficiency so I would either RMA the drive (if under warranty sounds like a great idea) or I would try to contain the bad sectors in a small partition which you would then not use, losing drive space in the process.

 

[mrbeanladen]

IF the WD util fails the SMART test you should see those errors in any utility you run and maybe even in the system BIOS (if supported). I do not know any way to force a reallocation in Windows. My understanding is that whenever these sectors are remapped it is detrimental to drive efficiency so I would either RMA the drive (if under warranty sounds like a great idea) or I would try to contain the bad sectors in a small partition which you would then not use, losing drive space in the process.

What's the difference between a "current pending sector" and a "reallocated sector"?
I have 1 pending sector but the rest is OK, is this enough of a reason to warrant a RMA? I also did CHKDSK on all partitions including the system reserved 100mb partition, and everything was absolutely perfect 0 bad files 0 bad sectors so is everything ok or is there a problem with my HDD? It's a WD caviar blue 1TB 7200rpm.

 

[unksol]

if western digitals smart tool fails the drive it I would absolutely RMA it. no point to holding on to a bad drive till the warranty is out