Is this correct?

[Eeglis]

Is Hard Disk Sentinel correct? It's showing that my HDD status is critcal. If that IS correct, what would be the safest way to back up my files? Should I get a new HDD and just drag and drop everything there or usa a program for that?

[WaterproofBeanie]

Shutdown your computer until you have a new hard drive, then just clone the entire disk across using windows built-in service. (I think)

[cynexit]

Depends. If the data reported is correct, than that amount of bad sectors is a problem and you should replace the HDD.

That said, some manufatrurers don't report SMART values correctly and the only way to get the real values is to use their own diagnose tool. WD for example, so double check.

[leadeater]

Being a Seagate disk I would believe that it is failing, sadly not uncommon for the generation of product. Remember that it has a 2 year warranty so use this if you still can, can't tell by powered on time but that is less than 2 years though.

 

 You will still need to backup your data before making the warranty claim.

[Eeglis]

Being a Seagate disk I would believe that it is failing, sadly not uncommon for the generation of product. Remember that it has a 2 year warranty so use this if you still can, can't tell by powered on time but that is less than 2 years though.

 

 You will still need to backup your data before making the warranty claim.

Warranity expired in late January of this year so I'm out of luck.