Does reparing a drive wipe it?

[vong]

Hi guys,

 

Was just checking the health of my drives with crystal disk info and one of them has a 'caution' health status with 'current pending sector count' as the problem. Went to disk management, started a scan and now have an option to repair the drive. Will I lose data when it's repairing?

[NelizMastr]

It won't actually repair the drive anyway. There is no such thing. As soon as it starts flagging sectors, the drive is on its way out. The degradation can take months or sometimes years, though.

[vong]

2 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

It won't actually repair the drive anyway. There is no such thing. As soon as it starts flagging sectors, the drive is on its way out. The degradation can take months or sometimes years, though.

Damn, luckily I'm about to make a clone of it to a larger drive.

[Hiya!]

I wont recommend it if your drive health is low enough because it will stress the drive and it could die in the process or damage it even further.

What i usually did is to backup the files by copying the files but not all files at once i start with the smallest files to the largest little by little and just pray to god hoping it will be fine.

Thankfuly i managed to copied all the files.

 

Because when i use chkdsk command the drives will just get disconnected in the middle of the process.

its just never work.

[vong]

On 1/2/2018 at 9:18 PM, Hiya! said:

I wont recommend it if your drive health is low enough because it will stress the drive and it could die in the process or damage it even further.

What i usually did is to backup the files by copying the files but not all files at once i start with the smallest files to the largest little by little and just pray to god hoping it will be fine.

Thankfuly i managed to copied all the files.

 

Because when i use chkdsk command the drives will just get disconnected in the middle of the process.

its just never work.

I copied files/folders some at a time like you said and everything copied over fine. Found that 1 folder was corrupt on the original drive and thank god it wasn't anything to worry about.