Thread: is my C drive dying?
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Old September 9th 16, 07:09 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Default is my C drive dying?
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forgot the warning: "Realocated Sector Count"

Reallocated sector count not zero = time to look for replacement.

That's telling you sectors on the hard disk have gone bad and drive is
mapping some reserved sectors into those areas. That makes it
transparent to the OS anything is going wrong but sooner or later there
will be no more sectors available to map into bad ones and then all hell
breaks loss The system is designed to have a pool of spares sectors
it uses for this purpose, obviously that's finite.

I've sometimes used such a drive as a backup drive for transient stuff.
Replace it, then use it as a second internal or put it in a USB
enclosure as an external. Then format it and start using it. If
reallocated sector count changes it's toast and just a matter of time.

Occassionally it could be a ont-time thing nut that's not likely.