Now, lets explore these contents together.

What does uncorrectable sector count mean?

Do I need to change a new drive when this happens to your drive?

run command prompt as administrator

You may raise such a question.

Here,MiniToolwill tell the answers.

If you conduct a non-destructive scanning, you will not receive any serious issues or warnings.

click on format option

However, some disks have been marked as suspicious due to uncorrectable sectors.

Theres no sector reallocations and no pending sectors.

In this case, uncorrectable sector count means that your disk probably is safe.

uncheck Perform a quick format and click OK

The error can damage or does a permanent failure to the hard drive and lead to data loss.

Here is a full guide to fix hard drive uncorrectable sector count warning.

To fix the SMART uncorrectable sector count warning, you gotta know something about it.

Now, you might follow the steps below of this uncorrectable sector count fix with minimum data loss.

Here, MiniTool Partition Wizard is strongly recommended for you.

ItsSurface Testenables you to check whether theres any sector on your hard drive with ease.

Here are steps to run CHKDSK.

Full format and safe eraser will overwrite each sector on the drive.

This operation will force the drive into reading the SMART parameters and attributes including uncorrectable sector count.

Before formatting your drive, you’re gonna wanna knowwhat does formatting a hard drive do.

Then follow the steps below to perform a full format.

Step 1:PressWinandRkeys to open theRunwindow, and then typediskmgmt.mscand hit theEnterto open yourWindowsDisk Management.

Step 3:UncheckPerform aquick formatand clickOKto save the change.

Then the volume will be formatted automatically.