hard disk warning

[hardcore_gamer29]

hd tune pro showing current pending sectors with warning what should i do

https://i.imgur.com/u2cZH0k.png

 

[Burpo]

That's an older Seagate drive.. Back it up & replace it.

 

[mikeymikec]

'current pending sectors' means that there are unreadable areas on the platter (the platter(s) being where the data is stored) that the hard drive has detected but not done anything about yet.

If your use of the computer is completely casual and you have your data backed up, you could let the problem run its course until it actually starts causing you usability problems. Alternatively, if your computer having unexpected downtime is an issue for you (for example, if it were to die just before you decided to run another backup), I'd get the drive replaced at the soonest convenient time.

A hard drive could spot unreadable sectors and deal with them (cordon them off so they never get used again, and substitute them for sectors out of its reserve), completely seamlessly / unbeknownst to you. It happens. I personally take the view that a drive that starts having problems of this sort will continue to have more problems. All it takes for example is an unreadable sector to occur right where a critical Windows file is and you could go from "everything was fine AFAIK the night before" to "today it refused to boot".