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Advice regarding WD Elements HDD
Hi everybody,
Last year I bought a WD Elelemts 3.5" 2.5TB USB 2.0.
Everything was fine until 1 week ago when Crystal Disk Info reported 1 under Current Pending Sector Count.
This seamed very familiar to me since I had THIS problem before and then THIS.
This time the HDD seamed fine so I start backing up all my backups :)).
After I finished backing up everything I disconnected the HDD and a few hours later, after reconnecting the HDD Crystal Disk reported the HDD was fine [TROLL FACE].
I checked with HD Tune Pro and again, the HDD seamed fine.
However, when I opened Paragon Disk Manager the program hanged reporting I/O error on that HDD.
I connected the drive to another PC and the results were the same: all programs reported no errors except the I/O error reported by Paragon.
I can however copy/delete without any problems. So far, that is.
I still have to try WinDLG utility to see what it reports, as well as the Windows full HDD scan.
However, what are your thoughts on this? The HDD has only 3 months warranty left so I still can return it but I am not sure this will solve anything.
Is the HDD dying or not? Should I return the HDD?
Last edited by daydr3am3r; 03 Oct 2013 at 12:43.