Hard Disk Monitoring

Once again, thank you so much for your time and your answer which proves considerably helpful with my problem! I agree that (even if the sectors will be fixed) you'll worry about the data. Without the ability to constant monitoring (due to the restrictions of the USB enclosure), I recommend to perfo...

Thank you so much for the valuable and extensive advices!!! Following your suggestions I did the Read surface test with HDSentinel (left it to work all night as a full read for a 1 Tib HD took a good 9 hours long). The final result of this is that my HD has 2 contiguous bad (red) blocks (#7544 and #...

Many thanks for your comprehensive answer! I take good notice of your comments and advices. I will indeed find the shortest possible USB cable to use with this enclosure, and will use the surface test on the blocks where the corrupted file is. Incidentally I should have precised that I'm using this ...

Hello there! I have been enjoying the high efficiency of HDSentinel for more than one year now, and feel much safer about my datas thanks to it! Unfortunately, one of my 1Tib HD is in a USB enclosure that according to HDS is not sending any SMART information, and worse thing is the enclosure is seal...