CrystalDiskinfo external drive health status "caution"

[FrenchyfromPA]

Hi, I scanned one of my external drive with CrystalDiskInfo and I got the health status "caution" 05 reallocated sectors count current 100 worst 100 threshold 36 raw values 6. What should I do to fix that? Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

The one and only "fix" is to replace the hard drive. You cannot repair bad sectors and they only increase in number until the drive is unusable.

 

[FrenchyfromPA]

Ok I'll probably do that. Do all external/portable drives get bad sectors after a while or are there some more reliable? I also have another question and I have a few issues with another portable drive ; when I connect that drive to my computer I can't see the detail of GBs used and the free space under the letter and name of the drive, also I noticed that one of my video mkv file on the drive has now the size O kb and I can't play it anymore...

 

[ex_bubblehead]

....Do all external/portable drives get bad sectors after a while....

ALL drives fail, eventually.

Please start another thread with your additional question.

 

[FrenchyfromPA]

OK Thanks. I will create another thread for the other question. Before closing this thread I just wanted to know if CrystalDiskInfo is reliable?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Yes it is

 

[FrenchyfromPA]

OK! Thanks a lot. Do I need to do anything to close this thread as solved?