Hard drive failing? Reallocated Sector count warning

Sam wrote in news:KeEIi.207686$fJ5.133133@pd7urf1no
> "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to.RemoveThis@myweb.nl> wrote in message news:46f2942e$0$47118$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net...
> > >
> > > Besides, with this hard drive I first began suspecting something wasn't
> > > right by noticing some performance issues and corruption of files.
> > >
> > Which obviously has nothing whatsoever to do with the high
> > "Ultra DMA CRC Error Count".
> >
> > The babblebots not having a clue, as always.

> The issue is NOT the CRC error,

You don't know that.
It's the only source for data corruption and another for performance is-
sues. Not when the drive is in UDMA mode but when the OS dumbs down
to MW-DMA or PIO mode due to too many errors and then there's no Ul-
tra DMA CRC Error recovery anymore and corruption occurs undetected.

> which was from a bad IDE drive cable from a previous computer.

It may be back.

> where the HD came from but the Reallocated Sector count warning.

Bad sectors do not cause corruption, they either can be read or they
can not. Data loss yes, corruption no.

You are looking for a reason to RMA.
Interface errors should do. One bad dector does not.
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On Sep 18, 5:18 pm, Andre Majorel <che....DeleteThis@halliburton.com> wrote:
> On 2007-09-18, Sam <nos....DeleteThis@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> > My Maxtor 6L250R0, only a couple years old now is showing a
> > yellow highlighted bar for theReallocatedSectorcount in HD
> > Tune. The values are below:
>
> > Should I be concerned?
>
> > ID Current Worst ThresholdData
> > Status
>
> > (05)ReallocatedSectorCount 253 253 63 1
> > (C5) Current PendingSector 253 253 0 0
>
> Looking at just these two, your disk has exactly one badsector.
> No need to worry.

Well....this evening I went to boot up my computer I heard a loud
click, click, click noise coming from the hard drive. The system
summary screen booted up and this [slave] drive failed the boot
test. It was not "seen".

After rebooting, the clicking stopped and the drive was recognized. I
ran smart tests and it showed no anomolies ie. it passed all the
tests.

How could the drive make this noise, fail to be recognize yet pass the
diagnostic tests?
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Mike wrote:
>
> On Sep 18, 5:18 pm, Andre Majorel <che....DeleteThis@halliburton.com> wrote:
> > On 2007-09-18, Sam <nos....DeleteThis@nospam.com> wrote:
> >
> > > My Maxtor 6L250R0, only a couple years old now is showing a
> > > yellow highlighted bar for theReallocatedSectorcount in HD
> > > Tune. The values are below:
> >
> > > Should I be concerned?
> >
> > > ID Current Worst ThresholdData
> > > Status
> >
> > > (05)ReallocatedSectorCount 253 253 63 1
> > > (C5) Current PendingSector 253 253 0 0
> >
> > Looking at just these two, your disk has exactly one badsector.
> > No need to worry.
>
> Well....this evening I went to boot up my computer I heard a loud
> click, click, click noise coming from the hard drive. The system
> summary screen booted up and this [slave] drive failed the boot
> test. It was not "seen".
>
> After rebooting, the clicking stopped and the drive was recognized. I
> ran smart tests and it showed no anomolies ie. it passed all the
> tests.
>
> How could the drive make this noise, fail to be recognize yet pass the
> diagnostic tests?

It's on its way out. I'd be surprised if it survived another dozen
reboots.


Duncan
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"Odiferous" <odie_ferrous.RemoveThis@hotmall.com> wrote in message
news:471A31FA.803A45F8@hotmall.com...
: wrote:
: >
: > Well....this evening I went to boot up my computer I heard a loud
: > click, click, click noise coming from the hard drive. The system
: > summary screen booted up and this [slave] drive failed the boot
: > test. It was not "seen".
: >
: > After rebooting, the clicking stopped and the drive was recognized.
I
: > ran smart tests and it showed no anomolies ie. it passed all the
: > tests.
: >
: > How could the drive make this noise, fail to be recognize yet pass
the
: > diagnostic tests?
:
: It's on its way out. I'd be surprised if it survived another dozen
: reboots.

I ran the event viewer and this is what showed up, probably at the time
I could not boot up. I don't know why after several boots it was fine
but that one time it wouldn't boot. I already got an RMA going and I
backed up the drive, what a PIA!!

"Event Type: Error
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11
Date: 2007-10-19
Time: 10:20:29 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ASUS
Description:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\D.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 09 04 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 0b 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 03 01 00 00 85 01 00 c0 ....…..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 37 42 04 00 00 00 00 00 7B......
0030: ff ff ff ff 04 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 @.......
0040: ff 20 00 00 02 01 00 20 ÿ .....
0048: 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 ....(...
0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0058: 00 00 00 00 b8 5d 2d 86 ....¸]-†
0060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0068: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0078: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........"
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