Inquiry on drive health
Hey all! I hope I am posting in the right place, and perhaps you can help me. I booted up CrystalDiscInfo earlier today and noticed one of my drives was listed under "Caution." It specifically mentions an issue with "Current Pending Sector Count" and "Uncorrectable Sector Count" both at 16. I wanted to look up other ways to verify this, so I ran two other testing methods.
The first was chkdsk. These are the results. Unless my eyes deceive me, that doesn't mention any errors. The second one I tested with was SeaTools, as the drive is a SeaGate, specially the ST2000DM008-2FR102. I've done a Quick Self Test, Quick Generic Test, and Long Generic Test, all of which it passed, though the issues with those values were still in the results at 16. I also took the time to look up any noticeable Critical, Error, or Warning notification in Event Viewer and only found the following all the way back in December 2025. I looked at the following parameters: "Disk," "Ntfs," "storahci", and "iaStorA."
"A corruption was discovered in the file system structure on volume ??. The Master File Table (MFT) contains a corrupted file record. The file reference number is 0x9000000000009. The name of the file is "<unable to determine file name>". This does not state what drive it is."
All of this is having me ask if the drive is at immediate risk of failure. I'm not knowledgeable if it is, but I do know it's an old drive.
EDIT: Running SeaTools "Fix All Short" removed both of the Sector Count issues. They're now back at 0, and the drive is now listed as "Good" under CrystalDiscTools. Was this an error that got flagged, or does SeaTools purge out such problematic sectors?