Spinrite results.....

[macten88]

I just ran Spinrite 6.0 on a hardrive. Initially bad:

3 bad clusters
192 bad sectors
98,300 bad bytes

Is the hardrive shot or what?

 

[edfair]

May be going bad but typically drives have some bad stuff on them.
Early Gibson documentation suggested not panicing with up to 10% bad sectors. And in your case the drive looks pretty good.
Try it again in a month and see if the defects have increased. Bad drives tend to get worse over time.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[davidmcolaco]

But the best thing that you should do is to make backups more often.

David

 

[hotfusion]

The important details have been omitted - were there significantly more bad sectors after running Spinrite than those that were initially bad?

As mentioned by Ed Fair, it is an increase in bad sectors that signify the need for a new drive, rather than bad sectors alone.

Obviously, get any important data off the drive ASAP.

Regards, Andy.
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[macten88]

Spinrite didn't find any bad sectors other than what I mentioned above.

 

[firewolfrl]

it's not a drive I would use for long...
I would replace it

 

[stduc]

I wouldn't be too hasty. What does Spinrite's report on the SMART data look like?

Why not post the logfile here? Or Greg at grc is always happy to assist if emailed?

 

[macten88]

His WME was locking up so we made the decision to format and install W2000 on the same hardrive. It works great now....