Should i worry about this hard drives health?

Hey guys just a quick question. I was going to upgrade this laptop to an HM160hc next week and use the old drive as an external. Well today windows told me i need to check out my hard drive and back up my data. So i decided to check HDtune because i trust that program more. My results were the following. Do you think i should worry about this when i put it into an external case? Also what could have caused this to happen?

Thanks
-Tippey

 

bring out the champagne!

 

If you can run Fujitsu's own diagnostics software, I'd do that and see what it turns up. If that's clear, you're probably fine. Generally I'd say SMART warnings are probably ok, but SMART fails are probably indicative of something actually wrong.

 

I ran their diagnostic test it failed also. Man this was going to be another free hard drive too

 

you need to get any data that you want to keep of that drive and bin it.

 

Impressive power on time, it equates to around 2570 hours of use.

"Write data errors rate: This attribute indicates the total number of errors found when writing a sector. The higher the raw value, the worse the disk surface condition and/or mechanical subsystem is."

Basically the drive tried to write a file to the disc, and it could not write a good portion of it. Because of it the error message comes up in the diagnostics.
You should back up your data and replace the drive.
It seems like your drive has also filled up most of its reallocated sectors, meaning all of the extra sectors which can be used to cover up bad sectors have been used. So in event that your drive gets another bad sector it will show.

Try running the windows error check/repair and see if that changes anything.

K-TRON

 

By the the counter on it dosent work. It counts around 6 ever random ammount of seconds. Also where is windows error check at?

 

Yeah so my current error rate is 100 now but worst stil says 57?

 

Error check:
go into my computer
right click the harddrive (go to properties)
Go to the tools tab.
Click error check
Check off both boxes.
It should prompt you to restart to run the test.
Leave it going and let windows try to repair damaged sectors of the drive.

You may want to backup before doing this, because your drive may fail when its being repaired.

K-TRON

 

Is there anyway i can clone this drve to the hm160hc i have? Or should i just reinstall vista on it. There is only 2 imporant files on this computer.

 

Well i did the repair. No luck i still have the errors.

 

Sounds like that drive is really old, broken and judging by the 60gb size, really slow. I would just end the problems at this point and buy a new relatively fast hd. Shouldn't cost much if you're not going for the high end laptop hd's.

 

The hard drive is some a zd7000 from 2003-2004ish i dont know it isnt my laptop. It gets 18.5mb/s. I had planned on making it into an external drive the laptop got a new hm160hc and i get to keep the old one for free. Anyone have any idea on what to do with it? Microwave? Oven? ????

 

lol i think its just about to die. The preformance is terrible now.

 

Maybe you shold take a backup now
But take a look at the " Power On Time"

 

All ready backed up im just waiting for it to die now. The power on time thing is wrong it counts 6 digits every 5 seconds. If you do the math its around 5000 hours but the hard drive was sitting unused for 3 years and its from 2003