Why does CrystalDiskInfo see my dying HDD as good?

When available post Sea Tools bootable long generic test results.



If you can test the disk drive in an empty bay of another computer or HD enclosure post results for
a) Sea Tools for Windows long generic test,
b) HD Tune (health, benchmark, full error scan)
c) HD Sentinel (overview, temperature, SMART)



If you've booted the computer using Linux then some of the above software companies have software for Linux:

Sea Tools for Linux:
https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/...4Installer.zip

HD Sentinel Linux:
Hard Disk Sentinel - Free Linux version

zbook said:

b) HD Tune (health, benchmark, full error scan)

HD Tune was run when Windows was running from the HDD in question. I will run a benchmark test tomorrow.

In case Sea Tools was not able to run the long generic test please run Gsmartcontrol extensive self test
GSmartControl . Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool

zbook said:

long generic test results.

It took 89 minutes to complete the test.

Looks good.

zbook said:

Looks good.

May I suppose that the data is safe and sound?

Always best to make free or pay backup images.

The drive tests were fine.

(Sometimes there are anomalies, false positives, etc.)