Hard Disk Monitoring

Thank you for your reply. I hadn't considered the fact that having the read fail would keep it from performing the write. So, in this case, I didn't understand why a re-initialize would fix it but a refresh wouldn't. Thanks for helping me understand.

I have a WD6400AAKS-75A7B0 disk. The short SMART test fails with a 0x79 code. HDS Overview says "The drive found 1 bad sector during its self-test. There is 1 weak sector found on the disk surface. It may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk". So, I run the data refresh test (...