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Windows warns WD Caviar Black HDD is dying, testing shows nothing
Hi
I'm having some weird problems with one of my internal HDDs. I have 2 640 WD Caviar Black. One of them has only one partition, used only for media (music, films, photos). About 2 days ago Windows start giving warning messages about that driver.
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I installed Crystal Disk Info and this is what it shows:
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I start testing the HDD using Disk Check, Tuneup Disk Doctor, WD LifeGuard Doctor, Disk Checkup inside Windows and Disk Check + Ultimate Boot CD on boot to see if is something wrong but everything shows up OK. Also I changed the SATA cables and re-tested, with same results.
Now here's the weird thing. About a few months ago I noticed that sometimes, while listening to music or watching a movie(all stored on that drive) I start experiencing low FPS, sometimes even 0 & the video/audio player start freezing. And always at the same frame/minute. So I backup up all the data, tried Disk Check and formated the drive and then Disk Check again. Everything turned out OK. About 2 weeks ago I had some serious driver conflict and I posted a thread here, under driver section. Apparently, I was able to isolate the problem and fix it till a week ago when an old 250 GB IDE drive
running on an external enclosure stopped working. Windows warnings claimed that the file system got corrupted and that I need to format the drive. I tried formatting the drive but it failed since now Disk Check was run to test the drive. Also, Disk Check failed vecause the driver is not formated. So I had to use diskpart to format the drive & then I used Disk Check but everything turned out OK. When I tried to add some data on it, the problem reappeared so I had to use disk part again. Now the only applications installed were nvidia chipset drivers, after the driver issue. Also, it seams that the driver installed Nvidia Storage Driver, driver that I don't usually install. Iesterday, while trying to create an UBCD USB, I got the same weird error I got with the external drive so I had to use disk part to format it.
So, in the end, is my HDD dying or not? What does "Reallocated Sectors Count" mean?
I'm using Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1.
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Kinda OffTopic: Since I bought my PC (it has almost 4 years) I changed 5 drives, this is the 6th. I made the mistake of choosing 2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ES 2 ST3500320NS and 2 7200.12 and all died in the first 8 months. Anyway, in all 4 cases every testing app showed the HDDs are dying, unlike now.
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So, any ideas?