Solved portable drive caution in CrystalDisk

Hi,

I have a portable drive and it's still working fine but when I connect it to my computer and check CrystalDisk I see health status "caution" and in Reallocated sectors count - current 100, worst 100, threshold 36, raw 000000000006. I don't have much data on that disk and I was wondering if I will be able to keep using it for a while?

Thanks for your help.

Serge

 

I just did a scan for that external drive with Command Prompt sfc /scannow and I got the message after the scan " Windows resource protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them. For online repairs details are included in the CBS log file..."

 

Triple6,

Thanks for your reply. Ok! Well actually I already moved all my files of that external drive, I just have a few copies of some those files on that drive. What would you recommend to do a full drive test on that portable drive?

 

Triple6,

I'm going to start running SeaTools diagnostic on my portable drive. I had one last question to ask you ; do you think an external drive is better and last longer than a portable drive, I know there's a fan inside and that helps to cool down the disk. I have some other portable drives at home and when I used them they can heat up pretty quickly...

 

Thanks for all your information and sorry for the delay to write back but I was very busy these last few days. I think I got all the information I needed and I'm going to close this thread now.