![]() ![]() It's an 5 year old drive so I don't have warranty. I haven't seen really any issues with the HDD yet, it works pretty much as you'd expect. Once you've backed up your data, I'd advise you to get in touch with the reseller you got it from or the HDD manufacturer's customer support and ask about RMA if it's still under warranty. It could be days, weeks, months or even more. And to make it even worse, there's no way to know how long it's going to take. Unfortunately when bad sectors start to occur, this will continue until the drive inevitably dies. Have you gotten any issues from that drive yet? Any unusual sounds/noises coming from it, freezing/hanging your system, etc? Leave the games as they are downloadable/reinstallable, you could just save your Save Game files so that you don't lose your progress. The first thing you should do is to backup your important files right away (files like photos, video, documents, projects, etc). I'm afraid that formatting the drive won't help with the bad sectors. If this is DATA you are not worried about because it can be downloaded again, you can use it until it dies, but if you care about the DATA on the drive, you should back it up before running any more scans and things. As the number grows it could or may already be starting to encroach on your data and cause some corruption(because the drive can not read the sector). What will happen is the drive may hang sometimes trying to read or even drop from the OS if it gets bad enough. ![]() I had a Seagate that had 1 pending and after a full scan of the drive it was able to read and write from it without issues(and never had an issue with it after, but I was keeping an eye on it for sure.).Īnyway 65 is quite a few so I think the drive will start getting more and more of these sectors. If you had a single, I could see the drive being able to maybe read/write it in the future(almost like a fluke that it did not in the first place). Since CDI uses HEX by default 41 is actually 65 sectors that are pending(and will be reallocated when the drive next works with them if they can not be read/written to). I have a feeling they will just be remapped(You can use HDTune to scan the drive and it will show the bad sectors as well). ![]()
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