Do you know how to read SMART values?Is this HDD in good condition?

[Zένø™ 👌]

Suddenly i have 2 yellow attributes,is this serious? http://i.imgur.com/ZTgGIbM.jpg

[paulco]

Is that from quick,or deep scan.
Doesn't look good.

[Zένø™ 👌]

Oprindeligt skrevet af paulco:

Is that from quick,or deep scan.
Doesn't look good.

these are the SMART data,there is no such thing as ''scan'' required in order to read smart data. ''Doesnt look good'' doesnt sound any usefull

[senseidongen]

My understanding is that for most of the numbers, closer to 100 is better. The only one that seems to be bad is the read error rate: the two that are highlighted are both at 100 so should be fine...

[_I_]

1000hrs isnt too old (42 days of use)

contact hitachi and see if its under warranty and rma it
http://www.hgst.com/portal/site/en/support/warranty/#step_two

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The reason it shows caution is due to reallocated sectors; anytime this occurs, the drive is starting to die. It means it has already started to have bad sectors and u can not recover from this, it will only get worse. Then the drive data will start becoming corrupted over time and then should u continue, the drive will just die out without proper warning in most cases. There is a yellow for Pending Sector Count, which usually means it has detected a bad sector that has not yet been marked off. To do that you need to run CHKDSK /F (for drive letter L) in a Command Prompt from an Admin user.

If the drive is under warranty, backup any data u wish to save and RMA it back to the manufacture for replacement, as covered by the driver maker's warranty.

Firstly, u need to download and run a proper HDD test from the drive maker.

I actually find your drive data here a little odd, as 1100 power on hours is roughly 45-50 days. So to have it already showing signs of bad sectors is a bit odd, but hey these things do happen. RMA drive is what is suggested here. Data backup should be done for that drive asap so data loss doesn't occur.

How to check/diagnose your Hitachi Internal HDD
http://www.hgst.com/support/downloads#DFT
^Download the Hitachi Fitness tool here. You must run this firstly, so that any error codes produced from it can be taken down by you and then inputted into the RMA form, as it will ask you for which error codes die the test produce for your drive in question.

To check warranty status of your drive, you can do that here.
http://www.hgst.com/portal/site/en/support/warranty/

[Zένø™ 👌]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Bad-Motha:

The reason it shows caution is due to reallocated sectors; anytime this occurs, the drive is starting to die. It means it has already started to have bad sectors and u can not recover from this, it will only get worse. Then the drive data will start becoming corrupted over time and then should u continue, the drive will just die out without proper warning in most cases. There is a yellow for Pending Sector Count, which usually means it has detected a bad sector that has not yet been marked off. To do that you need to run CHKDSK /F (for drive letter L) in a Command Prompt from an Admin user.

If the drive is under warranty, backup any data u wish to save and RMA it back to the manufacture for replacement, as covered by the driver maker's warranty.

Firstly, u need to download and run a proper HDD test from the drive maker.

I actually find your drive data here a little odd, as 1100 power on hours is roughly 45-50 days. So to have it already showing signs of bad sectors is a bit odd, but hey these things do happen. RMA drive is what is suggested here. Data backup should be done for that drive asap so data loss doesn't occur.

How to check/diagnose your Hitachi Internal HDD
http://www.hgst.com/support/downloads#DFT
^Download the Hitachi Fitness tool here. You must run this firstly, so that any error codes produced from it can be taken down by you and then inputted into the RMA form, as it will ask you for which error codes die the test produce for your drive in question.

To check warranty status of your drive, you can do that here.
http://www.hgst.com/portal/site/en/support/warranty/

thx i will do chkddsk but no chance for rma,hdd is no longer under warranty,it is 4 years old.It has only 1k hours because i use it only for video rendering & storage.
How bad does it look though?You said it is staring to die but how much time left?50hours or 500 hours?As i said before,i use this drive rarely so if it has another 500hours to live,i will be able to use it for more than a year.If only 50 hours left,i should buy a new one asap,so what do you think?

[chiefputsa☒lag]

hard drive death is difficult to predict. it can be later or the next 50 days or whatever.

better backup every important file to another hdd, optical disc (dvd/cd/blu-ray) , external hdd, or usb flash drive.

[Zένø™ 👌]

Hi again,so i did a chkdsk and after that the disk looks worse http://i.imgur.com/RSIHkDk.jpg
Did the pc discover more old undiscovered failed sectors or are these failures new and got caused in the last hours?

[_I_]

the drive is finding out that they are bad as it goes

replace the drive as soon as you can

[Azza ☠]

Each hard drive is given some additional spare sectors to allocate to bad sectors (dead/corrupted physical locations on the drive). So if it still have free ones, it can recover itself, just marks that one as bad and replaces with another. When you start running out of them, then they stop being replaced and data can start becoming lost if corruption continues.

Some bad sectors have already been replaced with spares, therefore it's suggesting to keep an eye on it. It's a good time for a backup. If your hard drive keeps getting bad sectors, replace it as it will continue to get worst and finally just fail one day.

Run CHKDSK and tick "Check for Bad Sectors", then let it perform on next startup. If it's found some more, your probably running into hardware issue and replacement is the only stable solution.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

U just never know; just be glad it's giving u such warnings, instead of just up and die one day without warning. As far as what to do, stop using the drive until u can backup the data. The longer it is allowed to be power on in the system, that allows for that chance for it to just up and die. You could boot up the machine with that drive connected the following day for example, and have it no longer work.

If CHKDSK is able to successfully mark off those bad sectors, that will help. Then backup that data asap. After u've done that and you have what data u need off of it, u could continue to use that drive, just keep an eye on it. If more bad sectors form, then I'd be prepared to toss it and replace it.

[_I_]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Azza ☠:

Each hard drive is given some additional spare sectors to allocate to bad sectors (dead/corrupted physical locations on the drive).

false, the drives space will be reduced for each bad/reallocated sector

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Oprindeligt skrevet af _I_:

false, the drives space will be reduced for each bad/reallocated sector

^This

And bad sectors aren't marked off until u run something like CHKDSK /F that can possibly mark them off properly. Otherwise the remain open as "dead spots" and it would allow the possibility for data to try and go there, if it does the data becomes corrupted.

[Azza ☠]

My wording was probably off, but I assure you...

"... if a drive knows that a sector is bad and the drive's controller receives a command to write over it, it will not reuse that sector and will instead remap it to one of its spare-sector regions."

While you are correct that it's drive space will be reduced for reallocated sectors (for old drives), you are still actually missing the point that there's a G-list is filling up (newer drives) - you should never actually run into a collection of bad sectors unless the hard drive is physically damaged. Old school drives would just use the next free drive sector, however that's known as 'Sector Slipping', as bad sectors are normally grouped it would have to scan over a bunch and that would slow down the drive over time seeking over bad sectors to the correct ID. Newer drives however don't use ID, but have memory access tables at the front of the drive, which is what that S.M.A.R.T data is reading. It has a reserved number of allocations in which it can quickly look up the locations.

I was merely suggesting you run CHKDSK multiple times, if it marks bad sectors, normally they come with friends. If the bad sectors are building up over time (multiple CHKDSK attempts fix them, but then find more each run), then your Hard Drive is internally damaged beyond repair and replacement is the only option. Once it's run out of those allocation slots you can see under S.M.A.R.T, slow downs and corruption of data can start to occur.

[_I_]

there are no spare sector regions
the bad spots are just marked as bad and will not be used