Can Current Pending Sector Count be fixed permanently? (WD)

Thankyou very much for the replies guys.

I have been using the Western Digital Software. I will use this disk for unimportant data until it dies.

It passes all tests at the moment, shouldn't the current pending error have been moved to the reallocated sector count or event count?

tonymaloney said:

It passes all tests at the moment, shouldn't the current pending error have been moved to the reallocated sector count or event count?

No. My post #8 explained why.

Thanks again for the reply. I *think* I am slowly understanding all this. So there is an error reading?

So I bought a new WD external a few months ago.. and transferred all data to this new disk.

I have a Current Pending Sector 1 on it according to HD Tune and CrystalDiskInfo, yet Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics passes everything. So again, an error reading? Do this mean there is some dodgy/corrupt files on my hdd?

yeah.

chkdsk /r, as well as the western digital tests. no problems.

i think so, but did another one just to make sure. it passed.

thanks all for the replies. i still dont know why it shows a pending sector in two programs and none in wd, but they will rma it anyway,