4KB Bad Sector and One Damaged Block in HDTune

JamesU2005 · 21 Dec 2009 at 17:10

As the title suggest after doing a CheckDisk scan in the recovery console it said I had a 4KB Bad Sector and then in Windows I recieved one Damaged Block when doing a Full Scane in HDTune.

Should I be worried?

Whilst the system was sometimes freezing yesterday, today has been fine!

AbsenceJam · 21 Dec 2009 at 17:15

If you have a bad sector I'd RMA as it can be a sign of failure to come or at least more bad sectors.

zero-one · 21 Dec 2009 at 17:50

I saw your other thread about the bad cluster aswell. I just lost a drive after having the same issues. I'd back everything up immediately. It could be on the way out.

JamesU2005 · 21 Dec 2009 at 17:55

Really?!?

What happened exactly?

Everything is running fine for me.

I made a backup yesterday but everything is working fine now.

zero-one · 21 Dec 2009 at 18:10

I've had this on two drives this year. Starts off with a bit of clicking now and again.

Run a chkdsk - it find 4kb in bad sectors and replaces a couple of files with bad clusters in \WINDOWS.

When using the pc you just get the odd error message and it crashes periodically.

First drive went on for months like this, then died. Second one died about a week after the ckhdsk.

Is it a Seagate? Both of mine were.

theron · 22 Dec 2009 at 15:35

yes be worried, back it up, erase it and rma it.