Help please.
I get these warnings:
http://pix.academ.org/img/2015/01/07/286999976804481075bd10d7995bd34c.jpg
gsmartcontrol:
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1
Tell me please, what I need do?
Is it possible to fix the hard drive? Or do I need to buy a new hard drive?
Thanks for you answer.
Number ONE back up any important data NOW
You can run smartctl to check hard drive health.
But I’d say you need a new hard drive. You can’t really fix a hard drive.
Back in 2011 I replied to a similar post with the following. Perhaps it bears
repeating.
When bad sectors begin to be to detected in an HDD for the first time it means
the surface of the disk is deteriorating. When that happens it most often
happens slowly at first then more and more rapidly as time passes. There is NO
WAY to reverse the process. In my considerable experience the rate at which a
disk’s surface fails is progressively more and more rapid as time passes. One
moment they work, and the next moment they don’t. It’s not a question of “if”,
it’s a question of “when”.
The bottom line: Listen to the advice you been given in the previous posts.
Don’t screw around analyzing the problem. Get a new hard drive and copy the data
off the old one now… not “tomorrow”, or when you “get a spare moment”, or “as
soon as the kids go back to school”… NOW.
Sorry if that sounds harsh, but I’ve seen a few hundred of these failures, and
I’ve also listened to several dozen customers say “I should have listened to
your advice.”
The deterioration I mention above usually appears as a section of the coating on
the disk begins to detach from the disk, forming a tiny raised bubble on the
surface which the head can not read. With time that bubble will grow, and as it
does the number of bad sectors will increase more and more rapidly as the
diameter of the bubble steadily increases, thereby increasing the area of the
“bad sectors”.
BTW, guess what happens if and when the height of the bubble grows enough to
close the gap between the platter and the drive head. Once that happens the
drive is toast, and any chance to recover data, etc. is instantly gone without
any prior warning other than exactly the symptoms described in this post…
lwfinger was right on target when he added:
…it is your data on the disk that is about to fail. If you
don’t ever want it again, keep on using the drive.
Ок, thanks! I will follow your advice.
(The first computer I used had a punch card reader)
Yes, my father worked at a computer (punch card reader), I remember pieces of cardboard with holes. I’ve used them as bookmarks in the books.
On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 02:06:01 GMT
aleksejsmir <aleksejsmir@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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> Ок, thanks! I will follow your advice.
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> > (The first computer I used had a punch card reader)
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> Yes, my father worked at a computer (punch card reader), I remember
> pieces of cardboard with holes. I’ve used them as bookmarks in the
> books.
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Also useful for making notes on. I’ve still got several hundred blank
ones from my programming days. One Fortran card in front of me at the
moment has a list of all the applications I need to add when making a
fresh openSUSE install. 
–
Graham Davis [Retired Fortran programmer - now a mere computer user]
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Kernel: 3.18.1; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
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