![]() (Note: make sure to backup your data first!) ![]() If the SMART diagnostics are reporting no reallocated sectors (or if the VALUE column for "Reallocated Sector Count" is still well below THRESHOLD), there is an easy way to perform a surface scan and remap the bad blocks at the same time. I'd suggest downloading smartmontools and GSmartControl to view the SMART diagnostics as another check, if you aren't sure which SMART diagnostics to trust. You should backup your data immediately (if you haven't already) and replace the drive before the problem gets worse and you lose your data. ![]() If you're seeing bad blocks when you run a filesystem integrity check, the hard drive has most likely already exceeded the number of blocks it can remap, and has exhausted its "spare" sectors.
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