Is my Hard Disk Drive dying? Disk bad block errors and warnings!

Ghot said:

@BLaZiNgSPEED


Mid-range computer...

Part List - AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, GeForce RTX 4070, Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower - PCPartPicker


The power supply you have may be adequate. I can't tell what brand it is, so I'm not sure.

The PCPartpicker.com list seems reasonable except that I would suggest a motherboard with the newer AM 5 socket and an AM 5000 or 7000 series CPU.

BLaZiNgSPEED said:

........I don't think it is safe to reinstall Windows on this hard drive again even if it installs in the clean sectors of the Hard Drive. As a result of these bad block errors it has caused some mild corruptions of my Windows 10 OS. At any point in future it will happen again regardless of Windows build version.

Please do yourself a favour. In post#3 and 5, dalchina had recommended that you run the Trial version of Hard Disk Sentinel to ascertain the health of your HDD. You had ignored.

Now if you want to keep your HDD, you have to keep monitoring the HDD with the above software. You may also run the Surface Test to find the bad blocks.

In my case once the bad sectors started showing up.- the system was performing fine even with the bad blocks, since the bad blocks were getting remapped into reserved sectors - I cloned my HDD on to a SSD. I continued to use the HDD and at one stage the bad sectors abruptly started increasing fast and spreading all over the drive. At that point I disacarded the HDD and replaced it with the cloned SSD drive.
Note: As long as the bad sectors are getting remapped into the Reserved sectors, the system will work fine.

So start off monitoring your HDD with Hard Disk Sentinel. You may read my thread here Is my HDD failing?

A sample screenshot of my failing HDD:



Note: Even with 48 bad sectors and health 54%, the performance was excellent -100% ( You should clone the drive when the the performance is still showing 100% which means the system files have not been corrupted..

Hard Disk Sentinel Hard Disk Sentinel Trial version - HDD health and temperature monitoring

Post a screenshot of Hard Disk Sentinel "overview" as shown in the sample screenshot above.

Advice: Clone the HDD while the performance is still showing excellent and keep it.