LBA 0 bug error (how to fix it)?

Most likely by sending the drive back to western digital. However I would run CrystalDiskInfo on it first and see if the drive believes it is running fine. If you get any status other than good from crystaldiskinfo its probably time for an RMA. Remember to get whatever data off the drive if you can WD will not fix your drive and send it back to you they will send you a different drive and your data will not be recovered from the old drive.
 
i have downloaded Crystaldiskinfo. all ( 2x 1.5 TB) drives say it is cautious and the 2 TB drive is bad. but it is still working.
 
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Drive D: has 498 bad sectors that the drive has corrected by using spare sectors that it has for this purpose. These are okay to have as long as the number is not going up daily or weekly. However I tend to watch drives when they get over 50. Some hold steady others sky rocket to several thousand and then become totally unreadable. And I am talking about work experience so I have seen this a dozen or so times..


I am also concerned about your other disks as they are all rated Caution. Can you expand the window so that we can see the whole output on one of these and post the picture.

Also when you capture you can bring the capture into windows paint and crop the image.
 
Reallocated Sector Count raw value: 01F2 hex = 498

Note again. These are sectors that the drive successfully fixed by grabbing new ones from the spare pool. SATA drives all come with spare sectors and when the drive detects sectors are begging to be difficult to read they recover by moving the sector to a sector in this spare pool. The sector from the spare pool gets mapped into the old sector lba so the os can not tell that its using a different physical sector. If the sector is readable they can do this and it results in no data loss. These bad sectors then will no longer be used so they will not be a problem. However if this number of reallocated sectors keeps growing at a regular rate it is a sign that the problem is not caused by a media defect but bad head or other part of the drive.
 
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The drive above has 1 bad sector that was remapped and 2 bad sectors that could not be read when the drive tried to remap them. Basically this means that the 2 sectors probably lost whatever the contents of them were. It is possible that the next read the drive could recover if the sectors are just very weak. Besides the 2 lost sectors (possible file corruption) I would not worry as much about this drive dieing versus the other drive.
 
The current pending sector count should ALWAYS be 0 ( I think ), as far as I am aware, its a critical error, if you are seeing problems with that, then time to start getting info off of it asap and then rma it.

I am not exactly sure, but someone said on these forums the other day something about that pending sector thing, they knew lots about harddrives, I forgot the name of the person, I think it was him who is involved with a ZFS thread.

When I looked up current sector pending, I find that if its 0 then the disc is in bad shape, but you have 100/100/0 so I dunno what thats all about, but I would get it checked out just incase.

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I just ran crystaldiskinfo for my drives and one of them shows the same as you for pending sector count but its not yellow, its blue, so no problems, it shows 100/100/0 but then it shows all zeros, so I suspect that sicne you had 2 bad sectors, its just pending and trying to remap them ? so it probably isnt anything to worry about ?
 
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The next time the sectors that are "Current Pending" get written this number should go down to 0. It is critical in the case that it means data was potentially lost by the drive though. At work I have seen new WD drives come with non zero current pending sectors when I did a quick format then did a HT Tach benchmark. Then after zeroing the drive the Current Pending sectors went to 0 and there has not been any problems with the drives after that. In this case I did not loose data since there was no data on the drive..
 
When I looked up current sector pending, I find that if its 0 then the disc is in bad shape, but you have 100/100/0 so I dunno what thats all about, but I would get it checked out just incase.
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Look at the raw value of 02
 
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