Hard Disk Monitoring

Hello,

A few weeks ago, I started to notice an unusual boot of my computer. When I turned the computer on it frezeed at the Logo, and didnt continues until I press F1.

I thougth it could be from CMOS batery, but now I know it was because the HD. I have an 750GB Hitachi HD.

I can imagine the HD is really damaged with bad and weak sectors. I already backed up all the data I needed, and i'm going to replace the HD very soon for an SSD.

What I would like to know is, if I removie the hard disk and connecte to a secondary system as secondary hard disk (for example by an USB adapter / enclosure / docking station) and perform a Disk menu -> Surface test -> Reinitialise disk surface test will it repair something of the drive.

I tried to put some images here, but it says the board attachment quota has been reached.

Thank you.

Generally if you receive the alert on startup and the health is 0%, then I'm afraid the errors are too much with the drive: the error-level threshold already reached.
If you can still use the drive, backup - it is a lucky situation - as most drives fail completely before this point, causing partial or complete data loss or "just" data corruption.

Yes, if you connect the drive as secondary drive to a different computer and attempt the Disk menu -> Surface test -> Reinitialise disk surface test then you may get a slightly better working drive. The test generally designed to stabilize status, force reallocation of further bad sectors and repair weak sectors, so generally the drive may be better used.

However, when a such low health detected, usually it means the spare area is already full or there may be other issues which can't be corrected in any ways (as no software can replaced damaged/failed components of the hard disk drive itself).

Yes, personally I'd give a try for that test - but considering the low health, the amount of problems, I'd not expect too much from that particular hard disk and I'd not recommend to store important, critical data on it.