Is it possible to use a crumbling HDD?

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There is a HDD WD30EZRX from Western Digital, bought in September last year. Recently, bad sectors began to appear on it, which resulted in five-minute system freezes and stuttering of films. CHKDSK remapped several sectors. The receipt, unfortunately, is lost (which voids the warranty), and disassembling a 3TB hard drive for the sake of a magnet would be too fat.
SMART [WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0WD-WCAWZ0904514FIRST]
Date=2012/06/07 02:39:52
HealthStatus=2
Temperature=38
PowerOnCount=149
01=200
03=150
04=100
05=200
ReallocatedSectorsCount=0
07=200
09= 93
0A=100
0B=100
0C=100
C0=200
C1=189
C2=114
C4=200
ReallocationEventCount=0
C5=200
CurrentPendingSectorCount=7
C6=200
UncorrectableSectorCount=1
C7=200
C8=200
[WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0WD-WCAWZ0904514]
Date=2012/06/07 15:18:49
HealthStatus=2
Temperature=36
PowerOnCount=149
01=200
03=150
04=100
05=200
ReallocatedSectorsCount=0
07=200
09=93
0A=100
0B=100
0C=100
C0=200
C1=189
C2=116
C4=200
ReallocationEventCount= 0
C5=200
CurrentPendingSectorCount=13
C6=200
UncorrectableSectorCount=1
C7=200
C8=200
[WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0WD-WCAWZ0904514THRESHOLD]
01=51
03=21
04=0
05=140
07=0
09=0
0A=0
0B=0
0C=0
C0=0
C1=0
C2=0
C4=0
C5=0
C6=0
C7=0
C8=0
Is it possible to localize bad sectors, repartition the disk so that they are not used (even with a significant loss of capacity), and determine the cause of failures so that the area used did it work well for a long time?
UPD: I went to Yulmart, where without any questions and the check was changed to a similar one (the same was not in stock).

Answer 1

By the way, according to the law, the absence of a check is not a basis for refusing warranty claims, article 18, clause 5 of the RFZPP. Hemorrhoids, of course, should be bigger, but you can fight.

Answer 2

I somehow tried to “cut off” a part of the screw with bads, as a result, I lost time in vain.
In general, you can try to find a utility that shows the number of the bad sector. write them down.
And like a program like acronis (maybe another one), they can do it based not on the volume, but from which to which sector, for example. Well, something like this)

Answer 3

If you buy in a normal store, then in their service they can simply look at the date of sale by the serial number.
I always buy discs in the center and always immediately throw away the receipt as unnecessary. And there has never been a problem - it’s faster and easier for service workers to look at the database of serial numbers than to read a check.

Answer 4

You need to run it through MHDD several times (by booting from an ISO image via a USB flash drive or writing it to CD / DVD) and then the ERASE mode, but without REMAP, but even ERASE is bad because it overwrites data, though not all, but only problem sectors. If after several runs you do not have problem sectors (red in the column on the right), then there is a chance that the disk will work for some time.
But most likely, if he has already begun to crumble, then he does not have long left - it is better to change.
Instead of MHDD, you can use Victoria, but Victoria works in the Windows environment and therefore there may be errors in calculating the access time to the sector associated with Windows multitasking, but if the processor is at least 4-core, then such errors are unlikely to occur. Just do not forget to turn off the Internet and all background programs, especially antiviruses, for the duration of testing.
A small digression into how the system for replacing "bad" sectors on modern HDDs works. The MHDD (or Victoria) program reads all sectors and measures the access time. If a bad sector is encountered, the access time to it increases, if the time exceeds a certain threshold, then the MHDD program instead of reading writes this sector (when the CLEAR mode is on) and then the hardware, namely the hardware of the hard drive, sees that the sector is bad and removes it forever (in SMART can see this in the ReallocatedSectorsCount field), and in its place it puts another one from the spare sectors. This procedure is called REMAP.
At the same time, it is the iron that makes the iron REMAP of the bad sector inside itself. If the REMAP option is explicitly enabled in the MHDD program, then it is not the hardware, but the software that decides whether or not to put the sector on the list of bad ones, so it is not recommended to enable the software REMAP, since the software may make mistakes. Use soft REMAP only as a last resort, when you already know the number of the bad sector, and for some reason the hardware does not want to make an iron REMAP for it on its own.

Answer 5

For two years I have been very actively using a disk (samsung HD321KJ) on 320Gb, with a lot of problems (bad blocks, it seems that there are problems with electronics, the error log is full, it overheated at one time, in general it worked in bad conditions and got sick), it had a system ( gentoo, but I touched it once every half a year at most) and a torrent archive (still worse, the archive was on RAID0 with striping with another disk, healthy) ... at first, as soon as I discovered problems, I decided to localize the problems by moving the failed files to a separate directory (complete reformatting of the disk with trouble marks did not suit me, and it took a long time, it was too lazy), there were at most 3 files. The disk was 90% full, in rare cases of errors in files (problems more often occurred when writing - the speed dropped to kilobytes) when reading - it launched a torrent rehash and downloaded a couple of bad sectors.
Now the disk has already been removed, there is an idea to mark all the troubles as faulty, reformat the disk and stick it somewhere, let it continue to work to death.

Answer 6

it was the same with the laptop screw ... the female thought to knock on the laptop, then it will load faster, as a result, the screw will start to fail.
Windows was not installed, Linux was installed, but when the screw was filled up to 20 gigs, the system fell.
I just repartitioned the screw, threw back 40 GB from the beginning of the screw, installed linux, now everything has been working for quite a long time.
just try the same

Answer 7

Winchesters are consumables. I throw out hard drives / flash drives at the beginning of buggy work. You can buy at least a carload of screws, but never your data.