Bad Sector Count

My Win XP Pro PC suffered a BSOD yesterday telling me that part of the
registry was corrupted. I restored the OS from my Acronis True Image
backup but the bad sector count has increased from 3 to 5. Not knowing
much about these things, is it time to buy a new HDD?

Here's the SMART report.

Thanks.

Keith.

--------[ SMART
]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[ SAMSUNG SP2014N (S088J1RYA07005) ]

01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 100 100 0
OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 25 100 100 6144
OK: Value is normal
04 Start/Stop Count 0 97 97 3394
OK: Always passing
05 Reallocated Sector Count 10 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 51 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
08 Seek Time Performance 15 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
09 Power-On Time Count 0 100 100 1738
OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 51 253 253 0
OK: Value is normal
0B Calibration Retry Count 0 253 2 0
OK: Always passing
0C Power Cycle Count 0 99 99 1756
OK: Always passing
BE <vendor-specific> 0 130 103 36
OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 130 103 36
OK: Always passing
C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 100 100 715695
OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 253 253 0
OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 100 100 5
OK: Always passing
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 253 253 0
OK: Always passing
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 200 0
OK: Always passing
C8 Write Error Rate 0 100 100 0
OK: Always passing
C9 <vendor-specific> 0 253 100 0
OK: Always passing

[ WDC WD1600BB-98DWA0 (WD-WMAEK1279192) ]

01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 200 200 0
OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 21 148 145 3116
OK: Value is normal
04 Start/Stop Count 40 96 96 4991
OK: Value is normal
05 Reallocated Sector Count 140 200 200 0
OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 51 200 200 0
OK: Value is normal
09 Power-On Time Count 0 94 94 4764
OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 51 100 100 0
OK: Value is normal
0B Calibration Retry Count 51 100 100 0
OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 0 96 96 4990
OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 112 253 38
OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 200 200 0
OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 200 200 0
OK: Always passing
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 200 200 0
OK: Always passing
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 253 0
OK: Always passing
C8 Write Error Rate 51 200 155 0
OK: Value is normal

Previously Keith <here.TakeThisOut@there.com> wrote:
> My Win XP Pro PC suffered a BSOD yesterday telling me that part of the
> registry was corrupted. I restored the OS from my Acronis True Image
> backup but the bad sector count has increased from 3 to 5. Not knowing
> much about these things, is it time to buy a new HDD?

> Here's the SMART report.

> Thanks.

> Keith.

> --------[ SMART
> ]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

> [ SAMSUNG SP2014N (S088J1RYA07005) ]

> 01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 100 100 0
> OK: Value is normal

No problems with the heads/amplifiers

> 03 Spin Up Time 25 100 100 6144
> OK: Value is normal
> 04 Start/Stop Count 0 97 97 3394
> OK: Always passing
> 05 Reallocated Sector Count 10 253 253 0
> OK: Value is normal

No defect sectors....

> 07 Seek Error Rate 51 253 253 0
> OK: Value is normal

Head positioning is reliable

> 08 Seek Time Performance 15 253 253 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 09 Power-On Time Count 0 100 100 1738
> OK: Always passing
> 0A Spin Retry Count 51 253 253 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 0B Calibration Retry Count 0 253 2 0
> OK: Always passing
> 0C Power Cycle Count 0 99 99 1756
> OK: Always passing
> BE <vendor-specific> 0 130 103 36
> OK: Always passing
> C2 Temperature 0 130 103 36
> OK: Always passing
> C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 100 100 715695
> OK: Always passing

This is typical. It just means that ECC is faster that retry on reads (i.e.
fast, but less acurrate positioning).

> C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 253 253 0
> OK: Always passing
> C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 100 100 5
> OK: Always passing

Hmmm. Something prevented the HDD from reasing these sectors....

> C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 253 253 0
> OK: Always passing
> C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 200 0
> OK: Always passing
> C8 Write Error Rate 0 100 100 0
> OK: Always passing
> C9 <vendor-specific> 0 253 100 0
> OK: Always passing

This one may completely healty, but the pending sectors are suspicuous.
Best run a long-smart self-test. It will do a comlete surface scan.
Lets see whether the pending sectors turn into bad ones. As it is, the
disk has zero bad sectors and this may be some other problem, e.g.
a driver issue or a controller problem. Post the SMART status of this
disk and the self-test log here, after running the test. This may very
well be a temporary failure, e.g. from a power-spike on writing or the
like. The long SMART self-test should identify that....


> [ WDC WD1600BB-98DWA0 (WD-WMAEK1279192) ]

Ooops, a WD. Ceapest disks on the market. Not a coincidence.

> 01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 200 200 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 03 Spin Up Time 21 148 145 3116
> OK: Value is normal
> 04 Start/Stop Count 40 96 96 4991
> OK: Value is normal
> 05 Reallocated Sector Count 140 200 200 0
> OK: Value is normal

No defects here either.

> 07 Seek Error Rate 51 200 200 0
> OK: Value is normal

Mechanics is ok.

> 09 Power-On Time Count 0 94 94 4764
> OK: Always passing
> 0A Spin Retry Count 51 100 100 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 0B Calibration Retry Count 51 100 100 0
> OK: Value is normal
> 0C Power Cycle Count 0 96 96 4990
> OK: Always passing
> C2 Temperature 0 112 253 38
> OK: Always passing
> C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 200 200 0
> OK: Always passing
> C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 200 200 0
> OK: Always passing
> C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 200 200 0
> OK: Always passing
> C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 253 0
> OK: Always passing
> C8 Write Error Rate 51 200 155 0
> OK: Value is normal

The WD is completely healthy.

Arno