Hard drive dying

[nour999]

I recently plugged in an old hard drive that I found laying around. I installed hard desk sential and I got this, Also on boot I get the S.M.A.R.T activated in the bios, is there i could relocate and fix the drive?

[0x1e]

4 minutes ago, nour999 said:

I recently plugged in an old hard drive that I found laying around. I installed hard desk sential and I got this, Also on boot I get the S.M.A.R.T activated in the bios, is there i could relocate and fix the drive?

Relocation is done automatically, there's nothing else you can do.

Once a drive starts dying then the drive is done. With each dead sector puts more strain on others which wears them out faster. Rinse and repeat.
There is only a certain amount of spare space on a drive, once you've used that up you will begin to lose data. By the time you realised that you've lost data it's too late, halve of the data is corrupt with no way to recover it.

[fredrichnietze]

their is not a fix to this problem. get any data you have and dont want to loose of the drive as soon as possible onto multiple drives if possible and or cloud backup. as soon as you have one bad sector it is time to move the data off the drive and replace it. youre drive is going to completely fail very very soon! many "start/stop cycles" will kill your drive quicker then continued use or long power on time with fewer cycles. 

 

edit: if you do in fact loose data you should not attempt anything yourself. send it to a data recovery specialist if the data is worth the 800-1500$ US it will cost to recover it. 

 

edit 2: not to be a total dick, but remember that "back up your data" thing linus has been saying for years now? this is why. you dont need it until boom you do and it is now possibly too late. back up your data, if it isnt in at least 3 places and a nuke can take out every copy it is not safe. nuke is less likely but fires, power surges, thievery, floods, hardware failure, are a lot more common