I grabbed this information from Disk Utillity on Linux Mint:
Current Pending Sector Count:
Normalized: 200
Worst: 200
Threshold: 0
Value: 22 sectors
What does it mean? Is it possible to fix that error?
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I grabbed this information from Disk Utillity on Linux Mint:
Current Pending Sector Count:
Normalized: 200
Worst: 200
Threshold: 0
Value: 22 sectors
What does it mean? Is it possible to fix that error?
Best Answer
It means that there are 22 sectors that could not be read. The next time you write to those sectors, if they can not be correctly written to, they will be remapped to a spare sector. You can use the
badblocks
utility to locate the bad sectors, anddd
to write to them:For each sector listed, first verify that it can not be read:
This should fail with an IO error. If it does, proceed with writing:
Use the sector number given by badblocks for [sector]. After doing this, check the SMART stats again and the pending count should be zero. The reallocated count might rise in the event that the writing failed and the sectors were reallocated from the spare pool. If this happens, you may want to replace the disk. If it does not, then all has been repaired.