I run check disk pretty regularly on my hard drive, and lately it’s been saying that I have some bad sectores (66, to be exact). I’ve run smartctl and HD Tune. Both tell me that I have bad sectors and the drive is in “pre-fail” stage. The drive is only a couple of years old. How worried should I be?
My drive is a FUJITSU MHW2160BJ FFS G2
Answer
The question isn’t “How worried should I be?”, it’s “Can I worry enough?”.
Prepare for the worst. If you aren’t making backups make them now. Replace the drive and have it checked by someone else. If they confirm what your software is saying then kudos! You just avoided losing a hard drive. If they say it’s fine, rejoice! There we no issues and you were scared for nothing.
Either way you win. The only way you lose is if you ignore it, don’t backup, and it fails.
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Source : Link , Question Author : RHPT , Answer Author : Dennis Williamson
