Hard disk problems

[Mitico]

Few days ago when I turned on the pc it was crazy slow, at first I had no idea of what it could be but after checking the hard disk health (with dark disk sentinel pro) it was showing 1 weak sector. After digging a little more and doing the surface test on that drive it said there are 2 unstable sectors. My question is, how I can fix that? There is a way or I need to wipe it entirely and do a fresh windows instal? Since its my only drive at the moment

[LunaP0n3]

If you've got HDSentinel Pro, select the drive from the list on the left, click the surface test button, then use the dropdown menu and then select "Disk repair (Read test with sector repair". This will force the drive to reallocate weak areas of the drive to the spare area.

 

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[Master Disaster]

11 minutes ago, Mitico said:

Few days ago when I turned on the pc it was crazy slow, at first I had no idea of what it could be but after checking the hard disk health (with dark disk sentinel pro) it was showing 1 weak sector. After digging a little more and doing the surface test on that drive it said there are 2 unstable sectors. My question is, how I can fix that? There is a way or I need to wipe it entirely and do a fresh windows instal? Since its my only drive at the moment

Open command prompt as admin and issue

chkdsk C: /f /r /x

It will warn you it cannot run on the C drive while Windows is running, hit Y and then enter. Now reboot your PC and wait, it might take a few hours but it will go through the drive and mark any bad sectors as unusable so the OS ignores them.

[Master Disaster]

3 minutes ago, LunaP0n3 said:

If you've got HDSentinel Pro, select the drive from the list on the left, click the surface test button, then use the dropdown menu and then select "Disk repair (Read test with sector repair". This will force the drive to reallocate weak areas of the drive to the spare area.

 

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Personally I wont use a third party tool to do something that Windows can already do, you have no idea if the third party tool is going to do the job correctly or not.

[Mitico]

11 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Open command prompt as admin and issue

chkdsk C: /f /r /x

It will warn you it cannot run on the C drive while Windows is running, hit Y and then enter. Now reboot your PC and wait, it might take a few hours but it will go through the drive and mark any bad sectors as unusable so the OS ignores them.

But is this safe? I mean I wont lose any data from it?

[mahyar]

23 minutes ago, Mitico said:

But is this safe? I mean I wont lose any data from it?

if it is one two sector probebly no

[19_blackie_73]

I'd start looking into a new drive, do a backup of everything important ASAP and get a new drive. It wont be the last bad sector in my experience

[Kilrah]

START by backing up any important data to another drive before doing anything else. 

 

The checks mentioned above will go over the whole drive, but that will likely just reveal more failures and exercising the drive that way may reduce the chance of getting the data back afterwards if the state is bad.

 

You'll want to replace the drive anyway. 

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, Mitico said:

But is this safe? I mean I wont lose any data from it?

If your worried just do

chkdsk C:

first and it will do a quick scan and tell you how many bad sectors it found. If its only one or two then you should run the thorough test and start thinking about a replacement in the future. If its in the hundreds then back up the drive ASAP and replace it ASAP.

 

Any data chkdsk cannot recover was already lost before you started the scan.

[Mitico]

2 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

If your worried just do

chkdsk C:

first and it will do a quick scan and tell you how many bad sectors it found. If its only one or two then you should run the thorough test and start thinking about a replacement in the future. If its in the hundreds then back up the drive ASAP and replace it ASAP.

 

Any data chkdsk cannot recover was already lost before you started the scan.

There's a problem.. I just did this and it says no problems found.. And thats weird