my laptop hard disk stop working, when i connect it to another laptop via USB cable, it shows 6% Health even after Format
does this mean i should not use it for critical data and throw it away
I would, Drives are not that expensive to replace.does this mean i should not use it for critical data and throw it away
Hello makhan10,
Agreed. I would copy the data to another drive, dispose of this drive, and replace it.
That sounds a great idea. Hopefully you also use disk imaging routinely and have a full backup. The act of imaging itself verifies the integrity of the used part of the partitions imaged. E.g. Macrium reflect (free-paid).
You can use e.g. Hard Disk Sentinel (paid for ) or Crystal Diskinfo to montor the state of your disks and generate alerts. That way you get early notification of non-catastrophic failure.
In your screenshot the healthy disk 0 is selected. If you select disk 1 and look at the S.M.A.R.T. tab you'll probably see a lot of reallocated sectors. If so it needs replacing ASAP.
You could try a low level format which may return the drive to a usable state but how long that would last is unknown, and TBH would you trust that drive afterwards.
As others have posted, for peace of mind, replace the drive before it fails completely.
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