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Disk Health Drops from 100% to 17% in 6 day with 552 bad sectors (in 1 day) appearing on log
Posted: 2024.03.16. 08:34
by holypepeg
i woke up today to see my HDD disk health drop from 100% to 36% suddenly after doing a chkdsk /f /r /x on it (took about 2h for 400g of used space- around 600 open space) the health droped to 17% !!!
also i think i only had 64 bad sector at first and now in process of 3h it increased to 552 bad sector - it still has 100% performance and reading is completly fine (no files found missing - also tested with some games no crashes as now ) so do i need to consider swapping the disk now or is it fixable? (it says 23 day remaining life so idk)
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Re: Disk Health Drops from 100% to 17% in 6 day with 552 bad sectors (in 1 day) appearing on log
Posted: 2024.03.17. 19:10
by hdsentinel
I'm afraid yes, what you see is completely "normal" (even if not expected).
Generally any disk operation (file copy/move, defragmentation, antivirus scan, disk testing with Hard Disk Sentinel or any other tools) can reveal bad sectors. Depending on the drive and the usage, bad sectors may remain un-detected for very long time (even for years!) as explained at
www.hdsentinel.com -> Support -> Knowledge Base -> Hard Disk Cases -> Hard disk case: bad sectors
https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_case_bad_sectors.php
So generally it is good idea to perform disk testing, even on a new drive and/or if the drive is not perfect or when the Health % changes, as explained at
www.hdsentinel.com -> Support -> Frequently Asked Questions -> Hard disk health is low or recently changed or I just installed a new (used) hard disk. How can I perform a deep analysis?
https://www.hdsentinel.com/faq.php#tests
Just the type of test is important: chkdsk (even with the switches you wrote)
- does not properly check/test or "repair" the bad sectors,
- does not report any possible retries, performance degradations
- does not scan the complete disk drive (just a partition)
- does not report the actual location of the problems
and so. So I'd more recommend proper disk surface test methods (for example Disk menu -> Surface test -> Read test in Hard Disk Sentinel to reveal and Disk menu -> Surface test -> Disk Repair to fix / stabilize) instead.
I suggest to check this topic too for more information:
https://www.hdsentinel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=15974
The reported bad sectors are reallocated, so instead of them, a spare sector read/written.
So ideally what you see is completely expected: as the original bad sectors never read again, ideally (if you're lucky) all files should be readable and everything is "perfect".
This is absolutely not true - as increasing count of bad sectors mean increasing chance of data corruption / data loss: there is good chance that file(s) stored on a previous bad sectors (even seems readable) are damaged, corrupted.
There is also good chance that even more bad sectors will appear with time (similarly as now hundreds appear in a short time, after the previous smaller amount of bad sectors) and the spare area will become full.
Considering the age (1000+ power on days) and the low Health % value, low estimated remaining lifetime value, I'd backup immediately and consider replacement (at least if you have critical, important data).