Monday, July 9, 2018

hard drive - Assessment is "failing" under id 5, Reallocated Sector Count, whose value comes out to be 561 sectors

I repeatedly receive a message from Disk Utility on screen, which says "A Hard Disk is reporting health problems."



On clicking the Examine button, I am taken towards a window,which says Disk failure is imminent




On viewing SMART Data and running self tests I was taken to new window which shows "564 bad sectors on top right hand corner, and also says that "back up all data and replace the disk"



I tried to various commands to run disk repairing wizard, but unfortunately every time, a pop up window with warning regarding bad health of drive appears and nothing happens.



System is core i3 with 2GB RAM and 320GB hard disk with following description,




  1. on writing sudo fdisk -lu it prints





    Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x000e4a21

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sda1 * 2048 104859647 52428800 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

    /dev/sda2 104859648 314574847 104857600 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
    /dev/sda3 314574848 551428095 118426624 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
    /dev/sda4 551430142 625141759 36855809 5 Extended
    /dev/sda5 551430144 621228031 34898944 83 Linux
    /dev/sda6 621230080 625141759 1955840 82 Linux swap / Solaris

  2. on writing, root@ubuntu:~# sudo fsck -y /dev/sda5 I got:




    fsck from util-linux 2.19.1

    e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
    /dev/sda5: clean, 137141/2182992 files, 708304/8724736 blocks

  3. on writing, root@ubuntu:~# sudo fsck -pcfv /dev/sda5 I got:




    fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
    /dev/sda5: Updating bad block inode.

    137141 inodes used (6.28%)

    18 non-contiguous files (0.0%)
    106 non-contiguous directories (0.1%)
    # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0
    Extent depth histogram: 109527/3
    708304 blocks used (8.12%)
    0 bad blocks
    1 large file

    84575 regular files
    13613 directories

    57 character device files
    25 block device files
    0 fifos
    0 links
    38862 symbolic links (27519 fast symbolic links)
    0 sockets

    137132 files




Thank you.

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