Storage Solutions Is this HDD damaged?

[avi]

This windows 7 laptop started showing boot errors. Sometimes it would boot fine, so I think the issue may be with HDDs.

Following is health status in HD Tune Pro

Any other diagnostic tools I should run and report them here? And anyway to fix these errors or HDD is damaged beyond repair?

 

[avi]

Error scan shows no damaged sectors:

 

[Crazy_Eddy]

Hard disks have spare sectors. A reallocated sector count implies that bad sectors were detected and marked bad and that address was remapped to the spare sector area. A few bad sectors are not a problem, but if it increases rapidly it indicates the drive is failing.

The interface error part is tricky since there's no user replaceable cable in a laptop. Try removing and re-inserting the drive to see if it helps. Run a quick crystaldiskmark benchie to see if speeds are significantly impacted by the interface errors.

 

[avi]

^I will try and report here

 

[anfjavid]

@ avi - what is the boot error which you get ?. You mean your hdd went missing in bios frequently ?

 

[avi]

^yup, here's the full thread: https://www.techenclave.com/community/threads/windows-7-boot-error-0xc000000e.167766/

 

[AMG]

Exactly the same symptoms as shown by Laptop HDD last week. Same warning status.

Crashed friday morning.

 

[avi]

^what about data?

 

[AMG]

Dont care.[DOUBLEPOST=1408884019][/DOUBLEPOST]Though TBH, I will get the HDD replaced on friday, and then will try to recover the data if possible for cheap, else its not really that important.