Tuesday, January 24, 2017

windows 7 - Pending Sector issue. Does this mean the HDD is failing?

My speed fans smart test said I have 5560 pending sectors. Does this mean the HDD is failing?



The computer is a Toshiba Satellite P755-S5390
I have had it since 2012. I have recently gotten BSODs so I have had to reformat the drive twice in the past two weeks.



Computer also gets pretty hot, I got an external fan for it about a year and a half ago.

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