Corrupted sectors - fixable?

[serenity888]

my laptop hd started failing last week by not letting me into windows but i've been able to save any valuable data through a caddy. i've ran hitachi's drive fitness chech which said i had corrupted sectors and that i could erase or repair the data. i was gonna reinstall windows anyway so erased it and the re-scan now says there is no errors. is it actually sorted and i should continue using it? its quite a old drive anymore coming up to 4 years old.

 

[MAllen]

If sectors are starting to fail, I would replace the drive. Just natural paranoia.

Run something like Speedfan as this gives you a bit more detail of waht is failig by reading the SMART information.

Also, when you ran Hitachi's test - didi you run the quick one or the full one? Often items can look fine in a quick test, then fail in the longer one.

 

[basmic]

I would never trust a hard-drive that has corrupted sectors - regardless what any piece of software that claims to repair the drive tells me.

If it has a problem reading a small area, but that area isn't developing corrupted sectors, then it could be the drive is either running too hot or cold.

I have a 10gb drive that needs about 10 minutes warm up time, if it's starting from a very cold temperature. This is due to metal, etc, expanding with temperature.

Might be worth running spinrite on the drive.