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From: Arno Wagner on 26 Dec 2006 13:00
Previously Keith <here(a)there.com> wrote:
> Arno Wagner wrote:

> BTW I just noticed the pending sector count is now up to 7 from 5 two
> hours ago.

Hmm. Not good. Do you have backup?

Arno
From: Al Dykes on 26 Dec 2006 13:06
In article <4vd690F1bj72mU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Arno Wagner <me(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>Previously Keith <here(a)there.com> wrote:
>> Arno Wagner wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> This one may completely healty, but the pending sectors are suspicuous.
>>> Best run a long-smart self-test. It will do a comlete surface scan.
>>> Lets see whether the pending sectors turn into bad ones. As it is, the
>>> disk has zero bad sectors and this may be some other problem, e.g.
>>> a driver issue or a controller problem. Post the SMART status of this
>>> disk and the self-test log here, after running the test. This may very
>>> well be a temporary failure, e.g. from a power-spike on writing or the
>>> like. The long SMART self-test should identify that....
>>>
>>>
>
>> Hi Arno and thanks for your reply. Total newbie here, how do I go about
>> running a "long-smart self-test"? I have EVEREST Home Edition.
>
>No idea. I use the smartmontools, there it is just
>"smartctl -t long <device>"
>
>Arno


Got backup? I think you'll need it soon.

I agree with the testing. I get the make and modek of the disk and
them go to the manufacturer's web site and download their test tool.
It's frequently called "drive fitness dest".

You run it and it makes a bootable floppy or CD. Boot it and you can
run read-only tests if you have data you want to save or run several
passes of the write/read test to see if the drive is worth keeping.

I don't use a disk that's ever shown one bad sector for anything
important after I've swapped it out of service.




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From: Rod Speed on 26 Dec 2006 17:03
Keith <here(a)there.com> wrote

> My Win XP Pro PC suffered a BSOD yesterday telling me that part of the registry was corrupted. I
> restored the OS from my Acronis True Image backup but the bad sector count has increased from 3 to
> 5. Not knowing much about these things, is it time to buy a new HDD?

Depends on what is producing the bads. If its external to the drive like a
bad power supply, mains surges etc, best to fix that and the drive will be fine.

> Here's the SMART report.

> --------[ SMART
> ]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [ SAMSUNG SP2014N (S088J1RYA07005) ]
>
> 01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 100 100 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 03 Spin Up Time 25 100 100 6144
> OK: Value is normal
> 04 Start/Stop Count 0 97 97 3394
> OK: Always passing
> 05 Reallocated Sector Count 10 253 253 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 07 Seek Error Rate 51 253 253 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 08 Seek Time Performance 15 253 253 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 09 Power-On Time Count 0 100 100 1738
> OK: Always passing
> 0A Spin Retry Count 51 253 253 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 0B Calibration Retry Count 0 253 2 0
> OK: Always passing
> 0C Power Cycle Count 0 99 99 1756
> OK: Always passing
> BE <vendor-specific> 0 130 103 36
> OK: Always passing
> C2 Temperature 0 130 103 36
> OK: Always passing
> C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 100 100 715695
> OK: Always passing
> C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 253 253 0
> OK: Always passing
> C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 100 100 5
> OK: Always passing
> C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 253 253 0
> OK: Always passing
> C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 200 0
> OK: Always passing
> C8 Write Error Rate 0 100 100 0
> OK: Always passing
> C9 <vendor-specific> 0 253 100 0
> OK: Always passing
>
> [ WDC WD1600BB-98DWA0 (WD-WMAEK1279192) ]
>
> 01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 200 200 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 03 Spin Up Time 21 148 145 3116
> OK: Value is normal
> 04 Start/Stop Count 40 96 96 4991
> OK: Value is normal
> 05 Reallocated Sector Count 140 200 200 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 07 Seek Error Rate 51 200 200 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 09 Power-On Time Count 0 94 94 4764
> OK: Always passing
> 0A Spin Retry Count 51 100 100 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 0B Calibration Retry Count 51 100 100 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 0C Power Cycle Count 0 96 96 4990
> OK: Always passing
> C2 Temperature 0 112 253 38
> OK: Always passing
> C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 200 200 0
> OK: Always passing
> C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 200 200 0
> OK: Always passing
> C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 200 200 0
> OK: Always passing
> C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 253 0
> OK: Always passing
> C8 Write Error Rate 51 200 155 0
> OK: Value is normal


From: Rod Speed on 26 Dec 2006 17:05
Keith <here(a)there.com> wrote:

> BTW I just noticed the pending sector count is now up to 7 from 5 two hours ago.

Either the drive is dying or its a flakey power supply
if you didnt get any mains surges during that time.


From: Keith on 27 Dec 2006 04:54
Arno Wagner wrote:
> Previously Keith <here(a)there.com> wrote:
>
>>Arno Wagner wrote:
>
>
>>BTW I just noticed the pending sector count is now up to 7 from 5 two
>>hours ago.
>
>
> Hmm. Not good. Do you have backup?
>

Oh dear god yes ;-) Chkdsk ran this morning and corrected a whole host
of errors so I think it's time to replace it. Thank to all who responded.

Keith.
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