need to write to them so the drive knows the "old data" is not needed anymore and its willing to remap the bad sector and swap it with a reserve one. If you download HDTune and check the SMART values, you can see Reallocated Sector Count, but also the number...

it looks good. The "Reallocated Sector Count", "Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count", and "Write error rate" are all 0. Just for reference, I have a bad hard drive here that showed these attributes (among others) using smartctl- 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct...

values. The value for Reallocated Sector Count was in the failing range. Evidently there was data in bad sectors that had been moved. I was surprised to read that a surface scan would not show this since the reallocation portion of the drive is invisible...

In all this, I keep getting disk write errors (but only in Windows, and even there the only program that triggers them seems to be eMule) and the reallocated sectors count reported by Palimpsest has risen to 471. Perhaps I should mention that my computer...

High value of re-allocated sectors count. Hi Sometime back i purchased a new assembled PC with the following configuration: Quad core processor with Gigabyte E45 motherboard and 1 TB seagate HDD. last week i installed Windows XP 64 bit in C drive....

TIME....................... 1000 21 186 200 0000000003E8 3 004 START STOP COUNT................... 261 0 100 100 000000000105 4 005 * REALLOCATED SECTOR COUNT........... 0 140 200 200 000000000000 5 007 SEEK ERROR RATE.................... 0 51...

10 Reallocated Sector Count 200 0 Very good 10 Seek Error Rate 200 0 Very good 6 Power On Hours Count 98 1605 Good 10 Spin Retry Count 100 0 Very good 10 Calibration Retry Count 100 0 Very good 10 Power Cycle Count 100 690 Very...

97 0 0 Ok (04) Start/Stop Count 100 100 20 10 Ok (05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 100 36 0 Ok (07) Seek Error Rate 100 253 30...

OK 100 100 20 N.A. 5 Reallocated Sector Count 0 OK 100 100 36 N.A. 7 Seek Error Rate 352506828 OK 85 60...

swap doesn't solve the problem and a disk swap does, then it kind of points to the disk drive. I'm wondering if it's got some suspect sectors and is causing timeouts when it has to do error recovery... perhaps you could plug the drive in and check it's...