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Event ID 7 Bad Block & iaStorA resets but Chkdsk ok..
Not finding threads that help me much with this. I have a Toshiba laptop with a conventional mechanical drive. I guess it is running about as well as it is capable of given the apps etc that are installed and the slow speed of the 5400rpm drive. Previously it had trouble because the user was in the habit of shutting it off after each short-term use, so it had an old botched upgrade from February and nothing since. All that is solved, but....
in the Event log are hundreds of Event ID 7 Bad Block detected entries, and dozens of IastorA "reset to Device\RaidPort0 issued" Event ID 129 entries. when I look at Disk Management, it shows the drive "Healthy", and after running chkdsk /f twice, there was nothing remarkable there in the log. I ran Crystal and it shows a warning due to abnormal Current Pending Sector count and Reallocated Sectors Count. Toshiba's own system health monitor shows the disk "Healthy"... I'm not convinced it is actually testing the drive.
Any guidance would be appreciated. If there actually is one or more "Bad Blocks", why is chkdsk not showing a remap to work around the bad blocks? Is there another utility I should try? By itself, the iastor reset error