Crystal disk Caution on hdd?

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note235

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I have two drives and both say "caution" via crystal disk. Can someone take a look at recommend a course of action?

 
The first drive (3TB) is very bad. RMA that as soon as you can. Hopefully you can get most of your data off the drive.

The second has 8 sectors that were written to at some point but the last time they were read the drive could not read the sectors.
 
Oh ok much thanks. The 3tb I just got, there's nothing on it. Should I replace the 4tb?
 
Ack yeah that sucks. I've had that happen to one of my hard drives one time.
 
Hello, I have a similar "issue" with my boot drive from my desktop PC. I've posted a screenshot of the CrystalDisk scan below. I do have an image of the C:\ drive from a couple of months ago and I'm in the process of getting my hands on a SSD that I'm going to look to install.

Just looking for some advice, since I'm new to CrystalDisk. Thanks in advance.


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You have 1 single sector that the drive lost data on it. This may be just an isolated media defect and not related to your heads going bad. Test your drive with a program that writes data to the drive (as much as you can) then verifies that the data was written correctly. If there is no valuable data on this drive I recommend running a 4 pass badblocks (available on a lot of linux live cd/d vd/usb sticks) read / write test. If this reports any errors I would not use the drive any more.
 
I was talking about the 80 GB but my advice is the same for the 4TB since it has 8 total sectors that it lost data on.
 
drescherjm said:
You have 1 single sector that the drive lost data on it. This may be just an isolated media defect and not related to your heads going bad. Test your drive with a program that writes data to the drive (as much as you can) then verifies that the data was written correctly. If there is no valuable data on this drive I recommend running a 4 pass badblocks (available on a lot of linux live cd/d vd/usb sticks) read / write test. If this reports any errors I would not use the drive any more.
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Still working on further testing this ...

Would this cause the PC to have a hard time coming out of sleep (W7 hybrid sleep)??? Because I've recently had issues waking up the PC. It always wakes up, it just takes 3-4 minutes or so.
 
Yeah I would RMA it if it's a new drive. If it's an old drive just backup regularly but you can still use it with no problems. I have a 640GB Toshiba laptop drive pulled from a "baked" HP laptop few years ago, the drive has had 2500+ sectors re-written to it and windows advises me to replace it asap, aside from that still going strong as I use it to transfer pronz from server to server, so no biggie.
 
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