The 1 area HD Sentinel is lacking is the ability to toggle the 3 SMART options in the drives. ![]() This will remap any failing or unreadable blocks. Short test is usually 2 mins or less but you should do a complete test. It is worth doing a SMART test rather than use checkdisk. As always I appreciate all replies and would thank you in advance. My first thoughts was to run checkdisk /R, and/or purchase a new hard drive but I wanted to ask those more knowledgeable than I am for their advice before I do. Additional information which might help is: Power on Time - 231 days, 0 hours Estimated remaining lifetime - more than 1,000 days Total Start/Stop count - 2,893. I do make monthly backups with Macrium Reflect (Paid). Hard Disk Sentinel indicates there are 32 weak sectors found on disk surface and I don't know just how concerned I should be. But, yesterday the Health, which had always indicated 100% indicated 81%. Because of my limited knowledge I am concerned with the heat more than anything else. I monitor the Laptop system with Hard Disk Sentinel 5.50. ![]() I purchased the Laptop in 2017 and for the most part have been satisfied with it. I have a LENOVO Ideapad 110 Laptop Toshiba MQO1ABD 100 (931.5 GB) 850.5 G Free I5 core 8 GB memory and Windows 10 Home operating system.
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