Solved Fix/Hide Bad Sectors

JAM83 · Mar 22, 2022

Bree said:
That info shows the best of all possible expected outcomes. Not a single pending sector was found to be bad or needed reallocating. All your pending sectors seem to have been false positives.

Now that the drive's internal controller has had a chance to test the whole drive it appears that it has given it a completely clean bill of health. Keep an eye on the SMART date from now on, but it appears you have nothing to worry about for now.

Yeah it all changed. . It was at "Caution", then after the full format was done, it's now "Good". . I'm still going to upgrade to the 8TB WD Black as soon as I can though. I need more space anyway.

Bree · Mar 22, 2022

JMedlock83 said:
Yeah it all changed. . It was at "Caution", then after the full format was done, it's now "Good". . I'm still going to upgrade to the 8TB WD Black as soon as I can though. I need more space anyway.

That was just a provisional 'caution' based solely on the pending sector count. Pending sectors are like Schrödinger's Cat - they are both dead and alive until you look at them to determine their state. All yours turned out to be alive, so there should be nothing to worry about.

JAM83 · Mar 22, 2022

Bree said:
That was just a provisional 'caution' based solely on the pending sector count. Pending sectors are like Schrödinger's Cat - they are both dead and alive until you look at them to determine their state. All yours turned out to be alive, so there should be nothing to worry about.

Wish it wouldn't do that. . It causes panic. . lol

JAM83 · Mar 22, 2022

Thanks to everyone who helped me. . @Bree @Ghot @Berton @Stigg And anyone else I missed

jimbo45 · Mar 23, 2022

Hi folks

@JMedlock83

Can't help with the OP's problem but my experience with HDD's is the more space you have the more you need !!!! probably a bit like Russian Oligarchs and money --you can never have too much.

What you might consider though is moving some data you don't want to lose over to the cloud -- you can get a reasonable amount of storage on Ms's one drive at around 1.50 USD a month which should be affordable.

The other alternative depending on where you live is to visit your local "Tip" or re-cycling centre and see if there's any old computers being chucked out that still have HDD's in them. Pretty well any computer manufactured in the last 10 years will probably have a decent-ish HDD in it (or maybe 2 or even 3). Remove them, clean them up and replace into your current system. As an "Old School" Engineer I'm quite used to canabalizing old gear for spare parts to service newer stuff to keep it running.

I've "rescued" quite a bit of hardware that way over the years.

Cheers
jimbo

JAM83 · Mar 23, 2022

jimbo45 said:
Hi folks

@JMedlock83

Can't help with the OP's problem but my experience with HDD's is the more space you have the more you need !!!! probably a bit like Russian Oligarchs and money --you can never have too much.

What you might consider though is moving some data you don't want to lose over to the cloud -- you can get a reasonable amount of storage on Ms's one drive at around 1.50 USD a month which should be affordable.

The other alternative depending on where you live is to visit your local "Tip" or re-cycling centre and see if there's any old computers being chucked out that still have HDD's in them. Pretty well any computer manufactured in the last 10 years will probably have a decent-ish HDD in it (or maybe 2 or even 3). Remove them, clean them up and replace into your current system. As an "Old School" Engineer I'm quite used to canabalizing old gear for spare parts to service newer stuff to keep it running.

I've "rescued" quite a bit of hardware that way over the years.

Cheers
jimbo

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