Hi,
I have a 1TB My passport wich I bought 3.5 years ago, so it’ s out of warranty. I haven’t used it much except the last 8-10 months, although I had it in my briefcase every day.
Recently windows 7 show me a warning about some errors on the disk. I immediately tried to backup all files and I found that some files had CRC errors. I run WD smartware diagnostics and Quick smart status passed, but Quick drive and Complete drive tests failed. After that I installed HD tune pro v5 to test the HD. I run several error scans and I found that the HD had about 4.5% - 5% bad sectors, so I formatted the HD using windows 7.
After the format, windows 7 stopped warning me about errors, but Quick drive and Complete drive tests from WD smartware diagnostics are still failing. HD tune pro error scans still shows about 1% bad sectors. HD pro Health tab (I think it reads smart data from HD) shows some warnings:
ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 156 150 51 9006 ok
(03) Spin Up Time 180 159 21 3966 ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 98 98 0 2269 ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 199 199 140 2 warning
(07) Seek Error Rate 100 253 0 0 ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 98 98 0 1652 ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 0 0 ok
(0B) Calibration Retry Count 100 100 0 0 ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 100 100 0 937 ok
(C0) Unsafe Shutdown Count 200 200 0 596 ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 196 196 0 13387 ok
(C2) Temperature 114 99 0 36 ok
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 198 198 0 2 warning
(C5) Current Pending Sector 200 199 0 37 warning
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 100 253 0 0 ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 ok
(C8) Write Error Rate 200 200 0 15 ok
Health Status : warning
The question is what to do with this HD? Should I format it one more time? Will it be reliable? Is anything I could do?
