My inlaws hd went bad and dell sent them a new one. I knew there had been some issues with dell's raid controller/driver that come preloaded on some of their systems which caused some file coruption.
Hoping that was the case with their's (and I had a good hd on my hands), I retrieved some of their files, reformatted, and zero filled the old hd and then ran some tests with WD's diagnostic program.
The extended test showed 2 bad sectors which it claims to have repaired with no problems. The info on the smart test shows that it passed all tests, but when I try and run a quick test, I get an error (7), something to do with a read element failure.
The thing is, the drive is formatted, shows as healthy in disc manager and is functioning normally.
Should I consider this hd trashed as it may be unreliable? Or is there an explanation for the error I'm recieving?
Hoping that was the case with their's (and I had a good hd on my hands), I retrieved some of their files, reformatted, and zero filled the old hd and then ran some tests with WD's diagnostic program.
The extended test showed 2 bad sectors which it claims to have repaired with no problems. The info on the smart test shows that it passed all tests, but when I try and run a quick test, I get an error (7), something to do with a read element failure.
The thing is, the drive is formatted, shows as healthy in disc manager and is functioning normally.
Should I consider this hd trashed as it may be unreliable? Or is there an explanation for the error I'm recieving?
