Solved "Miraculous" HDD recovery

[daydr3am3r]

Hi all,

I had some problems lately with one of my HDDs ("Current Pending Sector Count" = 1) and nothing seamed to fix it so I had to clone it & replace it.
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/283012-hdd-dying-problems-cloning.html

However, after I replaced it, I deleted everything on that HDD, including the partitions, formated as NTFS and ran a full Check Disk test, from within Windows.
After the test, every app I used stopped reporting errors or warnings and "Current Pending Sector Count" was back to 0.

So here is my question, can I trust this HDD now? I thought that was a hardware error and as far as I know something like this cannot be fixed using software methods.

 

[OvenMaster]

A very good question. I have a 320GB IDE drive that seemed to lose files. I 7-pass erased it with Eraser and it passed chkdsk /r and Seagate's SeaTools tests with zero errors. It's a shame to let it sit unused if it's still good.

 

[daydr3am3r]

In my case SeaTools and WinDLG didn't show anything. Same thing happened in the past with other HDD that were actually dying and Crystal Disk Info, Acronis Drive Monitor & Windows were reporting this.

I also heard about someone with the same problem as mine: the HDD was reporting errors under Current Pending Sector Count, he cloned it, erased everything on it and the problems were gone.