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The computer that this drive runs is super super slow. I was able to run my usual cleaners, mbam, combofix, ccleaner, I cleaned out start up programs, I'm ready to format it. I figured out I'd give this software a try. I'm not familiar with it as of yet, could someone interrupt these results for me?

I ran it on my personal laptop and didn't get any warnings, how serious are these is my question. these were the only 3 I got.

Those numbers are misleading. HD Tune's author is one of those annoying programmers who leaves out the uppermost 16 bits of the raw attribute values.

While the C4 and C5 attributes are properly correctly reported, I suspect that attribute 05 is a lot better than it looks.

Could we see a report, in hexadecimal, from HD Sentinel or HDDScan?

HD Sentinel (DOS / Windows / Linux):
http://www.hdsentinel.com/

HDDScan for Windows:
http://hddscan.com/

See this article for SMART info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

You need to scan the drive from begining to end.

I tried hddscan, the program opened up but when I went to select a drive, it had 2 spots open, but no information in those spots.

So I downloaded the trial of hd sentinel and got this:

http://www.cybersspot.com/Disk_report_2011_04_19_%20michelle.html

I searched through the help files and found nothing regarding HEX, what do I have to do to get that info to you?

Thanks so much for your help,
Dave

Sorry, I can't make sense of your drive's reallocated sector count, even after comparing it with others on the Internet. The raw value of attribute #5 appears to be showing 190 (=0xBE) reallocated sectors, yet its normalised value, ie health score , is still at 100.

I'd scan the drive and look for "slow" sectors, ie those that require several retries. MHDD, a DOS based utility, is probably the best for this.

http://www.cybersspot.com/Disk_report_2 ... helle.html

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Hard Disk Model ID   :   TOSHIBA MK3263GSX
Firmware Revision   :   FG020A
5   Reallocated Sectors Count   50   100   100   0000000000BE
96   Reallocation Event Count   0   100   100   00000000008D
197   Current Pending Sector Count   0   100   100   000000000001


http://en.community.dell.com/support-fo ... 10317.aspx

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Device Model:     TOSHIBA MK3263GSX
Firmware Version: FG020A
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       794
96 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       331
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0


http://www.ihdd.ru/forum/smart-status-b ... t9004.html

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TOSHIBA MK3263GSX
05 Reallocated Sector Count 50 1 1 2047
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 100 100 408
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 100 100 0