Samsung Internal Drives

[steve657]

Hi, My HD103SJ is acting a little crazy lately, I get some I/O errors in some applications and in Windows Event viewer I can see a lot of HDD-related errors for this particular disc.

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Does it look healthy?

I will give it a full format soon to see if that stops the errors. And I will be reinstalling Windows on a different drive.

My questions are:

1) Does it look okay from the SMART values?

2) What tools should I use for formatting?Samsung? Seagate? Windows?

3) What tools should I use for diagnostic? Samsung? Seagate?

Thanks

[Cantbecanit]

No it isn't healthy, a format won't sort it either, you need ESTools for dos and do a low level format on it, you are down to 33% so it will be touch and go tbh, I got one back from 69% to full heath before though.

[steve657]

Thanks for the reply Cantbecanit,

How did you calculate the 33% figure?

Is it from the pending sector count?

Thankfully I have a new OS drive coming soon so I can do a low-level format on this one and then see if it continues to get worse. It has been freezing lately and giving some I/O errors when trying to read some files.

Thanks again

[Cantbecanit]

I actually mistook the temperature reading as it's health %, if you put HD Sentinal or HD Tune on it will show you a % of health remaining.