HDSentinel HDD health improved.
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georgekhaidas
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HDSentinel HDD health improved.
How is this even possible. The drive has been making weird noises on startup from day one and had ~240 bad sectors after 2 days of use. Then i did a full format and now HDSentinel says its 100% healthy. How is this possible? Pic Does any of the SMART data seem weird to any of you?
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hdsentinel
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Re: HDSentinel HDD health improved.
Without knowing the details (for example what kind of problems, health reported originally by Hard Disk Sentinel) hard to say anything for sure.
If you saw "bad sectors" by chkdsk or format, then yes of course, they can (and should be) improved and should be eliminated to improve usability of the disk drive. The best way is to use Disk menu -> Surface test -> Reinitialise disk surface, if you're lucky enough then simpler solutions (in rare cases a format) may be enough to correct.
A very common situation, pending (weak) sectors cause such issues: they appear as bad sectors in chkdsk (or if you format the drive) but they can be fixed, repaired and the drive can work with even 100% health after that. This situation illustrated, described at Support -> Knowledge base -> Hard disk cases -> Weak sectors (and to make easier to access, available from Support -> Frequently Asked Questions and displayed by the software when found):
https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_ca ... ectors.php
This exactly shows a very common situation when we may assume there are disk problems - but generally issues are caused by the operating environment (cables, connections, power source, overclock etc.). These may lead to "bad sectors" and even damaged drive - but in most cases, these can be repaired without problems - and the health can be 100% again, confirming that the drive itself is working correctly - and something else caused the troubles. Fortunately, such issues can be also diagnosed, revealed by Hard Disk Sentinel too (not only the issues with the disk drive itself).
If you saw "bad sectors" by chkdsk or format, then yes of course, they can (and should be) improved and should be eliminated to improve usability of the disk drive. The best way is to use Disk menu -> Surface test -> Reinitialise disk surface, if you're lucky enough then simpler solutions (in rare cases a format) may be enough to correct.
A very common situation, pending (weak) sectors cause such issues: they appear as bad sectors in chkdsk (or if you format the drive) but they can be fixed, repaired and the drive can work with even 100% health after that. This situation illustrated, described at Support -> Knowledge base -> Hard disk cases -> Weak sectors (and to make easier to access, available from Support -> Frequently Asked Questions and displayed by the software when found):
https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_ca ... ectors.php
This exactly shows a very common situation when we may assume there are disk problems - but generally issues are caused by the operating environment (cables, connections, power source, overclock etc.). These may lead to "bad sectors" and even damaged drive - but in most cases, these can be repaired without problems - and the health can be 100% again, confirming that the drive itself is working correctly - and something else caused the troubles. Fortunately, such issues can be also diagnosed, revealed by Hard Disk Sentinel too (not only the issues with the disk drive itself).