How to force a remap of sectors reported in S.M.A.R.T C5 (Current Pending Sector Count)?
- by edgh
The S.M.A.R.T C5 value of my Samsung HM640JJ Hard Drive (in an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop) is "yellow status = caution"
C5 was 10 yesterday, and it's 21 today.
C4 (Reallocation Event Count) = 0 and 05 (Reallocated Sectors Count) = 0
How can I force the firmware to reallocate them?
I removed the partitions, recreated them again and formatted the entire drive.
I ran chkdsk /r /f
I ran the BIOS disk check utility and other diagnose/repair tools