Current Pending Sector Count

[Merlin5]

I had a failed backup on my laptop with Acronis True Image today. Tried a second time, and same thing.

I then loaded Crystal Disk and it shows a warning with current pending sector count in yellow.

I then did a chkdsk and it replaced some bad clusters to do with a game iso.

I uninstalled the game and deleted the game iso. Then ran Acronis backup again and it successfully backed it up this time.


Checked Crystal Disk again but still the same warning.


So I'm wondering what the implications are of the current pending sectors and if it's repairable? I also don't know if the backup failing was due to those bad clusters that were later replaced.

 

[KIA]

You could zero the free space using CCleaner and hope that the pending sector will get remapped.

 

[Merlin5]

Actually KIA, I validated my backup last night with Acronis and it will restore ok. I visited the Western Digital site and my drive is still under 5 year warranty till 2018. So I'm going to RMA it.