So my hard disk was giving me a hard time. And I found out that it had 11 bad sectors. Then I found out that I need to run chkdsk e: /f /r /x command in command prompt. I did that and got this results, can anyone tell me what does this mean? Can I keep using this drive or do I need to send it to the company since I have 7 months warranty left. But given the present situation I am not sure when I will get it repaired.
If anyone interested in the backstory of what problems I faced before getting to this point, here is the unwritten post.
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I was having problem with my hard drive since last couple of days. My hard drive would often freeze and show 100% usage in task manager while using programs like Photoshop.
Songs would buffer sometimes and sometimes won't play if I drag the whole folder in VLC but does play when I double click it individually in windows explorer. It also took hell lot of time to shut down once or twice. The monitor would turn off after shutdown but the LED and CPU fans would run for another 10 mins before shutting down.
But it also ran without any lag the other times, and software like Clip Studio Paint had no problems. So here was the backstory. Now the problem:
I decided to backup the files on my hard drive to my external HDD. While copying, the copy speed will go down to 0 bytes/second in a single file. And each time I try to copy it gets stuck in the same file. I found such 5-6 song files. But I managed to backup and also got suspicious of virus, so I cleaned the hard drive via cmd.
Now while trying to allocate space and create partition. Windows can't create partition if the "quick Format" option is unchecked which means it can't read the whole drive and do a complete clean. So I quick formatted and the drive was ready for use.
Then I ran Seatools S.M.A.R.T run and it passed. Short generic test, it passed. Failed in long generic test and fix all.
Then I used EaseUS to check for bad sectors and now after more than 2 hours of surface test i came to know that my drive has 11 bad sectors out of 1.9 B sectors.
So, is it possible to fix those bad sectors?
Window's drive properties>tool> error checking doesn't detectel any errors, so it doesn't suggest any fix. I already optimised and defraged once yesterday but it still shows that the drive is never defraged.
I can send the Hard Drive to the company for fixing but I don't think I will get a quick response due to the present situation. And yes, I still have 7 month warranty left. And I boot my PC with an SSD. This HDD was my game and software and multimedia storage drive.
UPDATE:
So there is no saving it now. I used HD Sentinel and Crystal Disk info. HD Sentinel showed 9% critical in health and just 14 days remaining and crystal info showed cautious.
I talked with the Shop and they said they will send it to SEAGATE but can't say for sure when they will get back the replacement due to the present corona virus situation. I have also asked them to provide me with a spare drive if possible so that I can keep using my PC to its Full capacity in the meantime.
I guess I can't deny HD Sentinel report as it is a reputed software. Thanks to everyone for helping out. Hope you all stay safe at this time of pandemic.
I'll update this post when I receive a replacement and will mark solved then. Thank you.
If anyone interested in the backstory of what problems I faced before getting to this point, here is the unwritten post.
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I was having problem with my hard drive since last couple of days. My hard drive would often freeze and show 100% usage in task manager while using programs like Photoshop.
Songs would buffer sometimes and sometimes won't play if I drag the whole folder in VLC but does play when I double click it individually in windows explorer. It also took hell lot of time to shut down once or twice. The monitor would turn off after shutdown but the LED and CPU fans would run for another 10 mins before shutting down.
But it also ran without any lag the other times, and software like Clip Studio Paint had no problems. So here was the backstory. Now the problem:
I decided to backup the files on my hard drive to my external HDD. While copying, the copy speed will go down to 0 bytes/second in a single file. And each time I try to copy it gets stuck in the same file. I found such 5-6 song files. But I managed to backup and also got suspicious of virus, so I cleaned the hard drive via cmd.
Now while trying to allocate space and create partition. Windows can't create partition if the "quick Format" option is unchecked which means it can't read the whole drive and do a complete clean. So I quick formatted and the drive was ready for use.
Then I ran Seatools S.M.A.R.T run and it passed. Short generic test, it passed. Failed in long generic test and fix all.
Then I used EaseUS to check for bad sectors and now after more than 2 hours of surface test i came to know that my drive has 11 bad sectors out of 1.9 B sectors.
So, is it possible to fix those bad sectors?
Window's drive properties>tool> error checking doesn't detectel any errors, so it doesn't suggest any fix. I already optimised and defraged once yesterday but it still shows that the drive is never defraged.
I can send the Hard Drive to the company for fixing but I don't think I will get a quick response due to the present situation. And yes, I still have 7 month warranty left. And I boot my PC with an SSD. This HDD was my game and software and multimedia storage drive.
UPDATE:
So there is no saving it now. I used HD Sentinel and Crystal Disk info. HD Sentinel showed 9% critical in health and just 14 days remaining and crystal info showed cautious.
I talked with the Shop and they said they will send it to SEAGATE but can't say for sure when they will get back the replacement due to the present corona virus situation. I have also asked them to provide me with a spare drive if possible so that I can keep using my PC to its Full capacity in the meantime.
I guess I can't deny HD Sentinel report as it is a reputed software. Thanks to everyone for helping out. Hope you all stay safe at this time of pandemic.
I'll update this post when I receive a replacement and will mark solved then. Thank you.