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Uncorrectable sector count - CrystalDiskInfo. Is it doomed or still possible to save? (alien.top)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The good news is that there's no reallocated sectors. However, 2E5 is 741 decimal value, which is a lot of pending sectors, I'd be surprised if they weren't bad sectors, and more to follow. I wouldn't trust it to safely retain any data. Backup your data immediately.

If you want to try to see how bad it is, do a full format and see what happens with those pending sectors and uncorrectable sectors. They may go away completely or they may end up as reallocated sectors (attribute 05) in which case it is likely on its way out.

Either way it's a 500GB drive 10-12 years old. Replace it with a 1 or 2TB SSD and call it a day. A drive that old with that many power on hours has a very limited life remaining regardless.