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Snifferdog3
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hello! I got a program to check my HDDs and 2 of them are showing up as caution! the pics will explain better than me so here you go... also these HDDs have 14000hrs for the WD5000 and 14500hrs for the Samsung, should I start backing up? help would be appreciated, thanks.5b40aa377b91e_baddisk.thumb.PNG.4c81608e5cbe365939ee1797e408950e.PNG5b40aa3dc26ce_baddisk2.thumb.PNG.9db60cc5e6b18cce0b2cbb2ed10646ff.PNG

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5 minutes ago, Snifferdog3 said:

hello! I got a program to check my HDDs and 2 of them are showing up as caution! the pics will explain better than me so here you go... also these HDDs have 14000hrs for the WD5000 and 14500hrs for the Samsung, should I start backing up? help would be appreciated, thanks.

REPLACE THEM ASAP!

DON'T USE THE PC!

 

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Especially the 500GB one is going bad fast, it's showing 15 bad sectors already.

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9 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Especially the 500GB one is going bad fast, it's showing 15 bad sectors already.

So to back them up do I literally just copy everything to another HDD in windows file manager?

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2 minutes ago, Snifferdog3 said:

So to back them up do I literally just copy everyone to another HDD in windows file manager?

For example, yes.

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you should backup your stuff no matter how good or bad the drive works.
 

but yes, simpliest solution is to simply copy and paste the files to another disk.

 

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