Fujitsu SH771 Hard drive upgrade

My Fujitsu lifebook laptop uses a 2.5" hard drive like all notebooks do. I want to replace the hard drive, it has about 8-10 bad sectors. Is this drive still usable? My data is all backed up, so if it fails I have recovery images anyway.
I conducted surface tests using EASUS free software it reported 8 to 10 bad sectors.
I used HDDScan and said it has 100 reallocated sector count, and failed that test as threshold was 50.
My first question is, is it still usable?

My second question is if I replace it, the drive is 9.5mm, not the 7mm. I cannot find any 9.5mm to buy. So I need to buy a 7mm. I was thinking of the WD Blue 1TB 7mm.

It has a rubber caddy on both ends, and looks like the one in this thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...ith-rubber-not-metal-hard-drive-caddy.785048/

Can I use the 7mm in my 9.5mm laptop? From the sata connector on the hdd, there is a flexible ribbon cable and connects to the motherboard.
The 7mm will rattle around won't it? How can it be secured? Since it is only a rubber caddy, there are no screws to secure in in place.

Thanks

 

The rubber caddy snaps into the HDD mounting screw holes, so, no, it wont rattle.

And you should replace it ASAP, and if you dont need the full capacity, ponder about using an SSD instead, will make the laptop much more usable.

 

Thanks for replying. I don't get why it won't rattle. I understand in metal caddys, you can screw the hard drive in place, but in rubber caddys where you just slot on each end, won't there still be a 2.5mm difference. It may not wiggle side to side, but won't it wiggle up and down for the 2.5mm difference in height for 7mm in 9.5mm caddy.
It's not secured in place with no screws.
I was actually thinking of kapton tape. Several layers at both ends to cushion it.

My CMOS battery is also dead. So I was thinking of getting a new one. Red wire to +ve and black wire to -ve. Use kapton tape to secure the wires. Then wrap several layers of the tape around the battery.

I don't know if it's due to bad sectors or not, but my laptop is extremely slow, lagging. It suddenly happened. Windows 10 update was installing. The it said failed, rolling back to previous windows 10 build. Did the update cause bad sectors? Before the update, laptop was perfect. No problems.

I did chkdsk, never could get past 12%
SFC stuck at 70%
Dism restorehealth command failed.

Tried to image drive with windows 10 built in imaging tool, but it failed due to bad clusters.

So I used factory discs to restore to original image, which was windows 7. Like a clean install, but using factory image restore.

Now it's extreme lagging, not all the time but a lot of the time.

I'm not sure if this sounds like bad hard drive? It's not clicking or anything.

 

Extreme lagging? Yeah, it sounds like an HDD that's failing fast.

The SSD won't move (too light), even with 2.5mm available travel.

Get an SSD, download Win10 (don't use the insecure Win7 anymore) from MS and do a clean install.

You may want to upgrade your RAM too, if possible. If you have less than 8GB installed, upgrade as much as your budget (and the platform) allows.

Use the Win7 key/sticker on your computer to activate Win10 (should work).

Use Rufus to create the USB installer.

See:
https://rufus.ie/

See:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

 

I ran chkdsk again, it worked this time there were bad clusters that were fixed. It said something about fixing hiberfil.sys bad clusters. Then there were a number of unreadable lines like 0x00 a long line of numbers that were fixed.

Will the bad sectors just keep increasing even though chkdsk was successful in fixing them?

Was it my failed windows 10 update the caused the bad sectors because before this, my laptop was completely fine?

I have 8GB ram 2x 4gb sticks. Only has 2 slots. Laptop is 9 years old.
I don't need to upgrade it too much because I may be getting another laptop in the future, not anytime soon though.

So if hdd, should the WD Blue 1tb be ok?
If ssd, which ssd is best? I looked at Samsung Evo 860 500gb. Is this 7mm?
I am only concerned about reliability and long term endurance.

7mm, so even if there is travel in those disks, is any tape ok to secure it? Can I use sticky tape or masking tape? Even sticky or masking tape with cmos battery is ok to wrap around?
Or do I have to use kapton tape several layers on the disk to secure in in place to cushion it against the disk drive access panel under the laptop.
I keep reading that if it does move, it puts stress on the sata connector.

 

Buy a cheap SSD, they will all perform the same on the laptop, a cheap Crucial will do just the same as the Evo 860.

And if you remove that caddy you will see that it secures the HDD/SSD by the mounting screw holes, so the disk being 7mm wont make it wonky at all.

 

My caddy is rubber like this, you slip on both ends.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...ith-rubber-not-metal-hard-drive-caddy.785048/

You can't screw the disk drive into caddy. It just slips over both ends.

 

I just opened it up and looked at the 2 pieces of rubber caddy. I looked inside too. It's smooth, there's no place for the caddy to slot into the screw holes. No protruding piece of rubber that will slot in the screw holes.

 

Strange, never seen such a caddy, but you can pad the new HDD with a piece of rubber under it, or a piece of dense foam.

 

@Emma15, time and usage are what is creating those bad clusters, Windows update had nothing to do with it.

You are worrying too much about the caddy needlessly. Use the design as-is. It will hold any drive you put in safely, 7mm or 9.5mm.

With your 9-year-old notebook and 8GB RAM, you should be set to enjoy the computer for as long as possible, while saving for a new one.

The EVO 860 500GB (and larger) SSD will be the best match. Find it on sale and just do it.

Remember that depending on what notebook you buy in the future, you can probably use the SSD you buy now on it too. 1TB would be my minimum for any SSD bought today.