SMART failure warning: maintenance possible?

[red3718]

My laptop computer gave me a SMART failure warning with a low (1)
reallocated sector count.

Checking other messages on this group I understood that my HD is at
risk of failure so I backed up all relevant data. As I use this
computer mainly for games and music playback and never for sensitive
data, I would like to use it as much as possible without replacing the
HD.

Is there any maintenance I can do for extending the life of my
going-to-fail HD?

Thanks for your help.

Giorgio

 

[Arno Wagner]

My laptop computer gave me a SMART failure warning with a low (1)
reallocated sector count.

Checking other messages on this group I understood that my HD is at
risk of failure so I backed up all relevant data. As I use this
computer mainly for games and music playback and never for sensitive
data, I would like to use it as much as possible without replacing the
HD.

Is there any maintenance I can do for extending the life of my
going-to-fail HD?

You can do a complete surface scan regularly. That might increase
the probability that sectors turning bad are found and replaced
before they become unreadable. One possibility is to run a long
SMART selftest. An other one is to just read the complete disk
sector by sector (Linux: cat /dev/<disk> > /dev/null, Windows:
difficult...)

Arno

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

My laptop computer gave me a SMART failure warning with a

low (1) reallocated sector count.

So obviously that wasn't the reason of the S.M.A.R.T. alert.

Checking other messages on this group I understood

No you didn't.

that my HD is at risk of failure so I backed up all relevant data.

All harddrives are at risk of failure.

As I use this computer mainly for games and music playback and never
for sensitive data, I would like to use it as much as possible without
replacing the HD.

Is there any maintenance I can do for extending the life of my
going-to-fail HD?

The same that you would do for your not-going-to-fail HD.

 

[Rod Speed]

My laptop computer gave me a SMART failure
warning with a low (1) reallocated sector count.

Post the full SMART report using Everest.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

Checking other messages on this group I understood that my HD
is at risk of failure so I backed up all relevant data. As I use this
computer mainly for games and music playback and never for sensitive
data, I would like to use it as much as possible without replacing the HD.

Is there any maintenance I can do for extending the life of my going-to-fail HD?

Just keep checking the full SMART report to see if anything changes over time.

If it really is just one reallocated sector, you may not get anymore.

 

[Yousuf Khan]

My laptop computer gave me a SMART failure warning with a low (1)
reallocated sector count.

It sounds to me like the number of sectors that the hard drive has to
automatically recover from bad sectors is getting low.

Checking other messages on this group I understood that my HD is at
risk of failure so I backed up all relevant data. As I use this
computer mainly for games and music playback and never for sensitive
data, I would like to use it as much as possible without replacing the
HD.

Not much, in my opinion once you have a SMART error, that's it, you're
already at your last chance. SMART errors rarely ever crop up, and when
they do, that's a special occasion that should not be ignored.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

It sounds to me

Better have your ears pierced then.

like the number of sectors that the hard drive has to
automatically recover from bad sectors is getting low.
LOL.

Not much, in my opinion

And who cares about your opinion.

once you have a SMART error, that's it, you're already at your last chance.

Nonsense.
Some counters can also backup again and the S.M.A.R.T. status reverts.

SMART errors rarely ever crop up, and when they do,
that's a special occasion that should not be ignored.

Unless S.M.A.R.T. rather obviously ****s up.

 

[red3718]

Folkert Rienstra ha scritto:

So obviously that wasn't the reason of the S.M.A.R.T. alert.


No you didn't.


All harddrives are at risk of failure.


The same that you would do for your not-going-to-fail HD.

Thank you, you have been really helpful.

Giorgio.