@michael chiklis
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Your drive has pending sectors + G-sense error (without any reallocated), this could mean that there is already a weak/dead head.
Wouldn't that point toward media damage, first and foremost ?
And no reallocation as far as I know only means that the pending sectors were not yet overwritten. Ain't that so ?
@diybit
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Often pending without reallocated means that you can restore them, and that they are maybe logical errors.
A few ones, perhaps, a couple dozens, maybe (I have a WD30EZRX with 25 “pending” sectors, all belonging to the same large video file it would seem, I moved that file to a specific directory with a name explicitly saying that there's a file with bad sectors in it, in case I forget, and it's been stable ever since), but 216 ? Unlikely. At best the bad sectors are grouped in a small area and can be bypassed by re-partitioning. Any further attempt at reading them, and even more so writing to them, is bound to expand the damage.
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But yes, and depending of the results, the drive is not safe to store critical data.
Regardless of the result, at this point, the drive is no longer safe to store critical data (unless it's a third backup).
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So if you have time to try:
- done three full write with Victoria (+option write LBA num)
Seems like over-kill — literally. A hammer blow would be quicker if the purpose is to get it over with.
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- if your drive is doing something after a write pass (noise, touch it), let it finish before starting next pass
And
pray Joe Pesci.
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- maybe let the drive plugged and idle for about 3-4 hours after those three erase pass
- go show SMART, look if pending is fall at 0 and if so do next
Again, highly unlikely.
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- full read it with Victoria, save the result with slow/error sectors, and show full chart (untick Grid option)
That would be the first thing to do (I would do that with HD Sentinel, but only because I have little experience with Victoria, if it indeed allows to export the complete list of errors then it's just as good for that purpose). Then check how those errors are distributed. If there are random errors all over the surface, I would say that the drive is no longer usable for anything, period. If there's one damaged spot or strip near the beginning (which is often the case for a system drive, since odds are high that a system file is being accessed when there's a shock, and system files being written first when the O.S. is installed, they are mostly located near the beginning), then deleting the current partition(s) and creating a new one beyond the damaged area, with at least 1GB of safety margin, may allow to squeeze some more life out of it, for non-critical data (for instance : to play media files on TV, or to bring copies of files on a trip...).
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Killing head or bin it is the same result, so burn it and made it fail now... (but I doubt head fail will occur when looking at your current SMART)
200+ pending sectors is starting to be very serious, in my — admittedly limited — experience, and it can go very quickly from “serious” to “total disaster” when insisting on accessing bad sectors.
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I don't know about G-Sense, but your seems not alarming.
All your bases are definitely belong to us.
@glhd
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Scandisk says that there are no problems on the disk, while the situation on Crystal Disk Info is unchanged.
Scandisk / CHKDSK with the default “fix” mode (chkdsk /F) only analyses the MFT, which is a relatively small area (usually starting at the 3GB mark relative to the beginning of each partition, or cluster #786432 —
for partitions created on recent Windows iterations, as this changed over time), it does not perform of full scan of the drive's surface.
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The laptop where the disk in question is mounted has always been sitting on a table so, what is the reason of the G-Sense errors ?
Depends how sensitive that is... I suppose that the sensitivity varies between manufacturers / models.
Perhaps you were drunk once in a while, and forgot... (Some get drunk to remember, some get drunk to forget.) Perhaps you lended the computer once to a not-so-careful friend... Perhaps you sneezed in your elbow as they recommend on the “new normal” TV, while wearing latex gloves with sticky hydroalcoolic gel residues which got stuck between the keyboard and the touchpad and pulled the computer... Perhaps you share an unfortunate congenital infirmity with the titular protagonist of the novelette
Evguenie Sokolov by french singer-songwriter
Serge Gainsbourg, who becomes a famous abstract painter because his formidable flatulences impulse a peculiar shaking on his painting strokes... God knows what happened, perhaps Joe Pesci does, too, but both are pretty quick to unleash their wrath so if I were you I wouldn't dare asking.
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Since Windows started only in Safe Mode, I tried to delete the components that are loaded by the operating system at startup, in the hope that the failed sectors would be occupied by a non-essential component.
You could determine precisely which files were allocated to each one of those bad sectors, but for what purpose, if you already have a copy (and hopefully a backup) of personal files, and if you're going to reinstall the O.S. anyway ? (You could have attempted a clone, but if you've already started deleting system files at random (by the way you describe it), chances are that the integrity of the O.S. is compromised by now...) (By the way, that's why it's a good idea to do system backups once in a while, especially with laptop computers since it's usually more difficult to find all the required drivers.)