Hey there everyone. I recently decided to reformat my computer because I was noticing a severe degrade in performance. After reformatting, and failing to install XP multiple times on original 320GB HDD, I had to swap in my Backup Data 160GB HDD, install XP on it, and eventually hook up the failing Original 320GB HDD in as a second drive so I could get some diagnostics and put some zero-writing and formatting programs to work from an XP environment; which is how I found out it was failing. I'm wondering if it's worth trying to salvage. Here's an everest SMART log.
[ Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 (VFB200R2C1S5NA) ]
Speedfan SMART was the same, w/ 0%fitness, and 94% performance marks. yik.
I just want an opinion as to whether I can use this an OS drive still, or perhaps as my backup data drive instead? and whether I should bother buying and using a program like Readrite, or if anyone has some freeware suggestions for bad sector recovery or whatever :hmm: .
I'm willing to put in work
;if anyone think it's worth it. Id rather not buy a new drive. Money is tight as I'm sure some of you know and feel that pain.
[ Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 (VFB200R2C1S5NA) ]
01 Raw Read Error Rate 16 76 76 46269336 OK: Value is normal
02 Throughput Performance 50 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 24 108 108 22872409 OK: Value is normal
04 Start/Stop Count 0 100 100 2037 OK: Always passing
05 Reallocated Sector Count 5 15 15 172 OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 67 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
08 Seek Time Performance 20 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
09 Power-On Time Count 0 100 100 4678 OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 60 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 0 100 100 1700 OK: Always passing
C0 Power-Off Retract Count 0 99 99 2117 OK: Always passing
C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 0 99 99 2117 OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 157 157 13, 38 OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 100 100 172 OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 25 25 1459 OK: Always passing
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 100 100 0 OK: Always passing
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 253 0 OK: Always passing
02 Throughput Performance 50 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 24 108 108 22872409 OK: Value is normal
04 Start/Stop Count 0 100 100 2037 OK: Always passing
05 Reallocated Sector Count 5 15 15 172 OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 67 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
08 Seek Time Performance 20 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
09 Power-On Time Count 0 100 100 4678 OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 60 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 0 100 100 1700 OK: Always passing
C0 Power-Off Retract Count 0 99 99 2117 OK: Always passing
C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 0 99 99 2117 OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 157 157 13, 38 OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 100 100 172 OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 25 25 1459 OK: Always passing
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 100 100 0 OK: Always passing
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 253 0 OK: Always passing
Speedfan SMART was the same, w/ 0%fitness, and 94% performance marks. yik.
I just want an opinion as to whether I can use this an OS drive still, or perhaps as my backup data drive instead? and whether I should bother buying and using a program like Readrite, or if anyone has some freeware suggestions for bad sector recovery or whatever :hmm: .
I'm willing to put in work
;if anyone think it's worth it. Id rather not buy a new drive. Money is tight as I'm sure some of you know and feel that pain.
Take care