This was a year ago, the drive has worked reliably since then. In my case all the pending sectors tested as good, so both the pending sector count and the reallocated sector count were zero at the end of formatting. One that fails will be remapped to use a sector from a pool of spare sectors, the Reallocated Sector count will go up by one and the Pending Sector down by one. A pending sector that passes the test is removed from the pending list. That makes the drive writes to and test every sector. I deleted all partitions, created a single new partition and did a full format. After some 'googling' it seems that hard continuous use, particularly with torrents, can push a drive too hard and cause sectors to be falsely mark as 'pending' when they are actually ok (and judging by some of the content on the drive, it had been used with torrents). I inherited a used 1TB usb HDD which had a Pending Sector Count in the low 'hundreds'. Chkdsk /f won't touch the Pending Sector Count.

A low level format is the easiest way to do this. The way to force the drive to do this is to zero all the sectors. The drive will test them when they are no longer in use and determine if they are truly bad, or mistakenly identified. That may clear the Crystal Disk Info warning.The Pending Sector Count is a list of sectors that the drive's internal electronics has detected as potentially being weak. Macrium Home Premium, Revo Pro, Screenspresso ProĪfter the backup, I suggest running chkdsk on the drive with the /f (fix) switch set. Other Info: Canon MX410 series Printer/Fax/Scanner/Copier, Hard Drives: PM9A1 NVMe Samsung 2048GB 2048.4 GB (Boot),Īntivirus: Defender, MBAM, SuperAntiSpyware PSU: 1000W PSU Liquid Cooled Chassis - CyberPower 1500 UPSĬase: Alienware Mid-Tower Dark side of the MoonĬooling: Liquid Cooled - 3 fan - Top exhaust Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 x 60 hertz Monitor(s) Displays: Samsung 27' Curved C27F591 Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 w/10GB GDDR5X mem OS: Multi-boot Windows 10/11 - RTM, RP, Beta, and InsiderĬPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900KF 3.50GHz, 3401 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processors System Manufacturer/Model Number: Alienware R12

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