Hard drive problem

[Tez77]

Hi got my pc sometime ago around 2 years ago my second drive runs fine but when i ran CrystalDiskInfo it came up with a caution
yellow tab that says Reallocated Sector Count current 100 worst 100 threshold 36 000000000180 the temp is 27c like i say runs fine but there is a few things on it am i about to lose my info is there a way to fix this any help be great

 

[SpyderTracks]

Hi got my pc sometime ago around 2 years ago my second drive runs fine but when i ran CrystalDiskInfo it came up with a caution
yellow tab that says Reallocated Sector Count current 100 worst 100 threshold 36 000000000180 the temp is 27c like i say runs fine but there is a few things on it am i about to lose my info is there a way to fix this any help be great

Worth running a chkdisk on it. Go to the properties of the drive in windows explorer and under tools, run the error check. If there are bad sectors then the disk may be on the way out.

 

[Tez77]

yup tryed that this morning took some time to do but came back with no problems

 

[ariadne2]

I would absolutely be backing up my files, regardless.

 

[vanthus]

If you have important data on the drive I would back it up now just to be on the safe side.

 

[SpyderTracks]

I would absolutely be backing up my files, regardless.

I would agree. Reallocation means that it's found bad sectors and reallocated the files to a new working portion. That's a good thing and means you'll carry on working as normal, but those old sectors aren't recoverable. The danger lies if the bad sector count keeps rising, if that's the case, you'll lose the drive fairly shortly. But, it could be that it's just that portion that's failed and the rest of the disc will be perfectly healthy. Keep monitoring it and backing up to be safe.