Storage Solutions 2TB WD Black internal HDD showing "current pending sector = 3". wht can be done?

[alive hunter]

My 2TB WD Black internal HDD showing "current pending sector = 3".
This a year old HDD. My system is not booting properly .. asking to restore OS (win7).

Please guide me resolve the issue.

Should I format the HDD and reinstall the OS .. will this help?

 

[vivek.krishnan]

I think you need to RMA the drive.

@cyberwarfare Your advice is sorely needed.

 

[cyberwarfare]

RMA the drive. It will only get worse with use. Trust me, i RMA'd a bunch of these for exactly this reason

 

[Black_Hawk]

This is exactly what I have on one of my 1TB Seagate Barracuda drives. Sadly it isn't in the warranty period any longer. I just use it now as a disk for storing unimportant stuff.

 

[alive hunter]

RMA the drive. It will only get worse with use. Trust me, i RMA'd a bunch of these for exactly this reason

its out of warranty now...

 

[6pack]

those bad sectors are at the beginning of the drive where boot parameters are stored.
you will have to use test disk to recover the boot sector and rebuild it to another good sector.

after you can get the drive to boot using test disk, copy all important files off it to a new hdd. you can use this old hdd by partitioning off the first 250MB disk as raw and utilize remaining disk space for storage of stuff like movies, etc which can be deleted or lost without any tears if the drive decides to die suddenly.

 

[cyberwarfare]

its out of warranty now...

If its a WD black it should have 5 years of warranty.

If it is out of warranty, i wouldn't store mission critical data on it due to the reliability of it.

 

[alive hunter]

If its a WD black it should have 5 years of warranty.

If it is out of warranty, i wouldn't store mission critical data on it due to the reliability of it.

it was a RMA replacement for my original WD Blue...

 

[cyberwarfare]

it was a RMA replacement for my original WD Blue...

Thats sad to hear

 

[Black_Hawk]

it was a RMA replacement for my original WD Blue...

That's a dampener. Now with no warranty it's best to phase out the disk and only use it for housing unimportant stuff or as a double backup vault. That's what I do with my out of warranty failing Seagate 1TB platter.