Window's Update issues after reinstall and more

dalchina · 08 Mar 2021

There should be no need to install additional drivers if all is well.

Only if you have mssing drivers should you need to take special action.

Now you need to
a. Check your disk as I've said
b. As soon as reasonably possible start your routine of disk imaging e.g. Macrium reflect (free) - saving disk image files to external storage.

Start doing that before rushing in to install programs.

Plan where you're going to keep personal data. Keep as much as you can off C: so it's not affected by O/S maintenance - such as clean installs or restoring disk images.

DawnS · 08 Mar 2021

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So I ran the Hard Disk Sentinel trail programme, really not sure what I'm looking at or what I'm supposed to do but this is what I have. Not really sure why its saying Toshiba either

Matthew Wai · 08 Mar 2021

There are 691 bad sectors on the disk surface.

DawnS · 08 Mar 2021

Matthew Wai said:

There are 691 bad sectors on the disk surface.

I'm guessing thats bad. What can be done?

Matthew Wai · 08 Mar 2021

Try using DiskGenius to fix them. See this post:

Win 10

dalchina · 08 Mar 2021

There are no details of your PC and its disks in your specs, so the only information I have is from HD Sentinel.

It's good that you have run it, but unfortunate that you ran it after installing Windows.

You can see this disk has problems. You should not rely on it- it is beginning to fail, but there are apparently sufficient good sectors to provide the rated space. (Hard disks are made with spare sectors- more than are needed to provide the capacity- and the firmware in the disk electronics manages these as they degrade).

It may be that this progressive failure gave rise to some of your problem.

There is also a Kingston Data Traveller whose health cannot be assessed. You need to find a way to check it.

**** Buy a replacement disk. RED IS BAD

And while you're ordering a replacement disk, make sure you have a large enough one- think e.g. 2Tb- for your disk image backup files.

How can you avoid this in the future? Once again:
Install and run Crystal Diskinfo (free) and set it to report degradation of disks against thresholds which it can in various ways- even by email. That way you get early warning.

Note the very act of disk imaging detects some early degradation. I.e. the image will fail to complete and you get an error message.

@Matthew Wai - you can't repair damaged sectors. Only mitigate their presence for a time.

Matthew Wai · 08 Mar 2021

I wrote "Try", and DiskGenius is freeware. You will lose nothing even if it fails.

DawnS · 08 Mar 2021

dalchina said:

There are no details of your PC and its disks in your specs, so the only information I have is from HD Sentinel.

It's good that you have run it, but unfortunate that you ran it after installing Windows.

You can see this disk has problems. You should not rely on it- it is beginning to fail, but there are apparently sufficient good sectors to provide the rated space. (Hard disks are made with spare sectors- more than are needed to provide the capacity- and the firmware in the disk electronics manages these as they degrade).

It may be that this progressive failure gave rise to some of your problem.

There is also a Kingston Data Traveller whose health cannot be assessed. You need to find a way to check it.

**** Buy a replacement disk. RED IS BAD

And while you're ordering a replacement disk, make sure you have a large enough one- think e.g. 2Tb- for your disk image backup files.

How can you avoid this in the future? Once again:
Install and run Crystal Diskinfo (free) and set it to report degradation of disks against thresholds which it can in various ways- even by email. That way you get early warning.

Note the very act of disk imaging detects some early degradation. I.e. the image will fail to complete and you get an error message.

@Matthew Wai - you can't repair damaged sectors. Only mitigate their presence for a time.

Should a laptop of 2 years hard disk be this badly damaged?

So its looking like I need a new hard disk ?

The Kingston Data Traveller was a USB i had left in.

dalchina · 08 Mar 2021

If you notice its health can't be read. You might see if Crystal Diskinfo can read it.

So its looking like I need a new hard disk ?

Yes, it's simply not worth building an O/S on a disk that seems likely to fail or corrupt your data at some point in the near future.

And another for disk imaging unless you've got one.

Matthew Wai · 08 Mar 2021

DawnS said:

Should a laptop of 2 years hard disk be this badly damaged?

See below:

ashramnavivi said:

I have a problem with my HDD (Seagate Barracuda 2TB st2000dm008 7200 RPM) that I bought in May 2020

Bree said:

Some drives just seem to go on forever, while others can die within a year.