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 Post subject: Bad sectors (C5, C6 SMART values)
PostPosted: February 27th, 2015, 19:14 
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Hello!

I have an old IBM Thinkpad laptop with a 40 GB PATA HDD which shows SMART values C5: 65052 and C6: 4. It's been like that for a long time, about 2 years - the laptop is used daily and works perfectly.

My friend has a desktop with 1 TB HDD which was giving him problem, he couldn't boot into Windows etc., then he could again after running chkdsk etc. His SMART data shows only C6: 4.

So is there some rule why one HDD would be working fine and the other not even though it shows the same SATA value of C6? Should he replace the HDD?

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 Post subject: Re: Bad sectors (C5, C6 SMART values)
PostPosted: February 28th, 2015, 5:06 
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can you upload the full s.m.a.r.t status of the drive here so some can point you to the right direction.

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 Post subject: Re: Bad sectors (C5, C6 SMART values)
PostPosted: February 28th, 2015, 10:51 
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 Post subject: Re: Bad sectors (C5, C6 SMART values)
PostPosted: February 28th, 2015, 11:53 
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Maybe this will help.

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/manual/smart.aspx

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 Post subject: Re: Bad sectors (C5, C6 SMART values)
PostPosted: February 28th, 2015, 15:12 
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Thanx but it doesn't really tell me why one HDD works fine despite the corrupted secotrs and the other one doesn't.


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 Post subject: Re: Bad sectors (C5, C6 SMART values)
PostPosted: February 28th, 2015, 16:07 
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Probably not only checking SMART can give you the answer.
Have you done a surface scan?

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 Post subject: Re: Bad sectors (C5, C6 SMART values)
PostPosted: February 28th, 2015, 17:18 
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No, I haven't. Which program would you recommend for the surface scan?


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 Post subject: Re: Bad sectors (C5, C6 SMART values)
PostPosted: March 1st, 2015, 19:51 
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OK, I have used the MHDD before. What about the HDDScan (freeware)? Or the Windows' built-in ScanDisk (chkdsk)? Are those OK?


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 Post subject: Re: Bad sectors (C5, C6 SMART values)
PostPosted: March 3rd, 2015, 19:17 
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HDDScan, Vitoria... That will work too.

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