Timeline for Hard drive weird issue
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| Mar 9, 2014 at 15:05 | answer | added | TudoracheC | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 14:47 | comment | added | user34853 | I have decided to give up on the DATA in that partition and I formatted it with Gparted, now the pending sector count decreased to 40 while the reallocated sector count is still 0, I still can't mount that partition though. | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 12:52 | comment | added | user34853 | Ok, I found this post which explains some of the smart attributes: superuser.com/questions/429639/howto-interpret-smart-attributes and apparently I have a Current pending sector count raw value of 80. And a 0 reallocated sector count. | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 12:44 | answer | added | user260243 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 12:35 | comment | added | Hennes | @OP: It should not cause any damage. Reading the smart values is done from the disks controller. It should not take long and it does not scan the disk. It merely asks the disk 'Hi, can me give me your rapport card?' | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 12:35 | comment | added | Hennes | No Clippy: I do not want to automatically move this discussion to chat where a 1 rep user can not talk. | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 12:30 | comment | added | user34853 | I just wanted to add that since I'm running ubuntu from a 4gb USB stick, it sometimes freezes and I have to restart the computer. I just installed smartmontools and I'm going to run the long test, I'm just wondering if it freezes and I restart the computer, would it cause any damage? | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 12:26 | comment | added | Hennes | Re testdisk. I agree, I would not expect that to returns that everything is ok. Yet the symptoms you have match perfectly with disk errors and lots of 'reallocation pending' and reallocated sectors. | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 12:23 | comment | added | Hennes | Small side note: sda4 is an extended partition. it contains sda5 and sda6. No need to run ntfsfix on that since an extended partition will (should) never contain a NTFS filesystem. Instead it will have other partitions in it (in your case recognized as sda5 and sda6). | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 12:22 | comment | added | user34853 | I will try it and let you know, however, if I understood what testdisk does correctly, when running it, no bad sectors were found. | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 12:20 | comment | added | Hennes | First impression: Your harddisk has bad sectors and has not automatically reallocated them to spare sectors. [Some of ]these bad sectors happen to be on a place on the disk needed by your windows installation. You can confirm or deny this by reading the SMART parameters. (Plenty of posts here on Super User explaining that part). | |
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| Mar 9, 2014 at 12:09 | comment | added | user34853 | If you need me to run any other test I'll be glad to, the past few days have been a nightmare for me. | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 12:01 | history | asked | user34853 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |