Hello there, thank yo u for the help.
TL;DR: Drive is said to be faulty in 2 utilities, yet one of the utilities also says the SMART status was passed fine.
My questions:
- Any advice? What am I to do?
- What should I make of the fact that the SMART values pass, yet I have bad sectors?
- Is making an image using the Windows backup tool, enough to secure my data?
- Should I buy a new internal drive, perhaps 2.5" and do a manual replacement?
- Can Gparted cause bad sectors or could Linux partitions or unallocated free space partitions be called “bad sectors”?
I have a Lenovo Y50-70 laptop with a seemingly faulty drive sadly.
The program HWInfo places a yellow triangle beside my drive when I use a “summary scan”.
Yet when I run WD own Date Lifeguard tool, it says “SMART Status: PASS”.
YET when I run an extended test on my drive, DLGDIAG Extended, using the same tool, it says my drive has
“bad sectors” and when I try to repair them, it also says “Unable to repair” :(.
What am I to do? I would really appreciate any help I can get. I don’t think I have a warranty.
I can’t believe there’s bad sectors… It’s a pretty new laptop. On a Linux live CD, I used
“gparted” to shrink the C drive. But when it was nearly complete, Gparted gave me an error
which said something like “bad input/output” something. I chose to ignore it. Any advice?
Should I buy a new internal drive and try to replace the apparently faulty one?
My questions:
- Any advice? What am I to do?
- What should I make of the fact that the SMART values pass, yet I have bad sectors?
- Is making an image using the Windows backup tool, enough to secure my data?
- Should I buy a new internal drive, perhaps 2.5" and do a manual replacement?
- Can Gparted cause bad sectors or could Linux partitions or unallocated free space partitions be called “bad sectors”?
THANK YOU !
