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WD Hard Drive Low Health & Caution

The N

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Hey guys,
i have 2x500GB hard drives
SEagate and WD

I have some a problem with my second hard drive. it showing me low health according to HArd Disk SEntimel and CrystalDiskInfo. its 85% which is not good if compare to Seagate 500Gb which is 99%.

In the second screenshot you can see the the "Reallocated sector Count" Caution. i dont know what is it. do i need to worrie about it. or what you suggest.

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copy all the data over to another drive, then do a low level format, sometimes it will mark those bad sectors not usable for the OS and allocate spare sectors.

After doing that, try copying back the data and see if the drive throws bad sector errors. If so time to replace the drive!!
 
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Hey there, @The N!

I'm very sorry to hear about your issues with the WD HDD!
This is very unfortunate, I'd go with @suraswami's suggestion and backup the data & re-format the drive.
You can also run WD's diagnostics tool - Data LifeGuard, it wouldn't hurt to have a third opinion on the health: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=6uJYxm
You can use the tool to perform the low level format as well and write zeros to the drive.
Here's how: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=ipFqFZ

If the drive is still under warranty, I strongly recommend getting in touch with our tech support and sending out an RMA request: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=EbH010

Hope this helps! :)
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High power on count and low hours. Looks like its done. stop with the partitions.

But run the WD Diagnostic tool
 
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SuperSoph_WD said:
Hey there, @The N!

I'm very sorry to hear about your issues with the WD HDD!
This is very unfortunate, I'd go with @suraswami's suggestion and backup the data & re-format the drive.
You can also run WD's diagnostics tool - Data LifeGuard, it wouldn't hurt to have a third opinion on the health: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=6uJYxm
You can use the tool to perform the low level format as well and write zeros to the drive.
Here's how: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=ipFqFZ

If the drive is still under warranty, I strongly recommend getting in touch with our tech support and sending out an RMA request: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=EbH010

Hope this helps! :)
SuperSoph_WD
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Thanx for your concern. But its warranty already Expired. i think reformating as @suraswami and as you mentioned are only last resort to me.

i'll try toperform these recovery operations once i get my next 1TB hard drive so i would transfer my important data on it.

i'll report here whatever the result i get.
 
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