Is my hard drive failing?

[jmt356]

I ran two scan disks, one on 7.9.17 and one on 7.14.17. What alarms me is that 28 KB in bad sectors was found on 7.9.17 and 40 KB in bad sectors were found on 7.14.17. Is this an indication of a failing hard disk?

Here are the complete logs:

7.9.17 Scan Disk:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
478208 file records processed. File verification completed.
1878 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 61 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
583188 index entries processed. Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
478208 file SDs/SIDs processed. Cleaning up 893 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 893 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 893 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is compacting the security descriptor stream
52491 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
35721200 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0x4ec485000 for 0x10000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0x5020a5000 for 0x10000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0x5020a8000 for 0x1000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0x4ec485000 for 0x10000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0x5020a9000 for 0x10000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0x5020b6000 for 0x1000 bytes.
Windows replaced bad clusters in file 102769
of name \hiberfil.sys.
478192 files processed. File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
70478889 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.
Adding 7 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

610112508 KB total disk space.
327405044 KB in 362026 files.
192536 KB in 52494 indexes.
28 KB in bad sectors.
599364 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
281915536 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
152528127 total allocation units on disk.
70478884 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 4c 07 00 41 53 06 00 d7 48 0b 00 00 00 00 00 .L..AS...H......
da 7b 00 00 3d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .{..=...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.


7.14.17 Scan Disk:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
478208 file records processed. File verification completed.
1878 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 61 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
583252 index entries processed. Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
478208 file SDs/SIDs processed. Cleaning up 21 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 21 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 21 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
52523 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
33874664 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0x1a94d3000 for 0x8000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0x1a94d9000 for 0x1000 bytes.
Windows replaced bad clusters in file 142092
of name \PROGRA~1\ALWILS~1\Avast5\defs\17071404\exts.dll.
478192 files processed. File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
70411656 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0xb74cf000 for 0x10000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0xb74d3000 for 0x1000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0xb8094000 for 0x10000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0xb8098000 for 0x1000 bytes.
Replacing bad clusters in logfile.
Adding 3 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

610112508 KB total disk space.
327675568 KB in 362398 files.
192632 KB in 52524 indexes.
40 KB in bad sectors.
597652 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
281646616 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
152528127 total allocation units on disk.
70411654 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 4c 07 00 d5 54 06 00 ca 4b 0b 00 00 00 00 00 .L...T...K......
da 7b 00 00 3d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .{..=...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

[HansV]

The total number of bad clusters is now 10 (40 kB) on a total number of 152,528,127 (about 581 GB). That is negligible. I don't think there is any need to worry. But it won't hurt to check every month or so.

[jmt356]

But the issue is the increase in bad clusters from Check Disk 1 to Check Disk 2, which is indicative of a failing hard drive, isn't it?

Plus, about every third time when trying to wake the computer from hibernation, errors display.

[HansV]

The increase is hardly worrying. At this rate, it would take about 700,000 years before all clusters have failed. It's only time to start thinking about replacing the hard disk when the number of failed clusters starts rising rapidly and becomes a significant percentage of the total.

What kind of error messages do you see when you try to wake the computer from hibernation?

[jmt356]

What kind of error messages do you see when you try to wake the computer from hibernation?

I don't recall, but what I do know is that on Friday evening, after I performed a scan disk, the computer never got to the point in the scan disk that states “Windows has finished checking your disk. Please wait while your computer restarts.” Rather, it only reached “CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5).”

The computer stayed frozen with that message for over a day. Eventually, I forced shut down, but upon restarting the computer, I got an error saying that there were errors on the hard drive and that a check disk was highly recommended. The check disk automatically launched and again only got to the point in the scan disk that states “CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)," but never got to “Windows has finished checking your disk. Please wait while your computer restarts.”

I will post the most recent scan disk logs.

[jmt356]

There is no record of the scan disk performed on 21 July or today 23 July.

I tried looking for both "Chkdsk" and "Wininit" in the Source column in Application under Windows Logs in Event Viewer.

What does that mean?

[viking33]

There is no record of the scan disk performed on 21 July or today 23 July.

I tried looking for both "Chkdsk" and "Wininit" in the Source column in Application under Windows Logs in Event Viewer.

What does that mean?

No event was logged because the event apparently was not completed.
If I were you, I would spring for a new HD. They are pretty inexpensive these days and I'm not sure I would want to wait for the "other" shoe to drop.

[jmt356]

The problem is it is difficult to find standard hard drives these days. I always purchased from Crucial.com, but they now only sell SSDs, which for the size I need (1 TB), are not cheap (around $300). It will take some research to find the right standard hard drive.

[stuck]

The problem is it is difficult to find standard hard drives these days...

I don't know where you are located but that's not true here in the UK. A simple Google search for '1TB HDD' turns up dozens of hits. Here's a page from a UK site that I've bought from in the past:
http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Storage/cat ... --Internal

Ken

[viking33]

The problem is it is difficult to find standard hard drives these days...

I don't know where you are located but that's not true here in the UK. A simple Google search for '1TB HDD' turns up dozens of hits. Here's a page from a UK site that I've bought from in the past:
http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Storage/cat ... --Internal

Ken

Same thing with my quick search that showed 1 TB HDD for $49.00 US.
NEWEGG.COM & AMAZON.COM.
Western Digital and Seagate.

P.S. that's why, as stuck said, it's always nice to post your general location in your Lounge profile.