HELP. I'm getting Reallocated Sectors Count warning for my fairly new laptop drive..fix? HELP.

I'm getting Reallocated Sectors Count warning for my fairly new laptop drive..

I ran chkdsk and it found no problems. Should I be concerned and how can I fix this error.

Realloacted Sector Count = INVISIBLE bad sectors that have been swapped with reserve sectors. These sectors are NO LONGER VISIBLE to your operating system and as such can NEVER cause any more problems.
Important SMART attributes:
- Reallocated Sector Count = bad sectors in the past; this might have caused problems in the past but does not have to; drives replace weak sectors as a precaution which may never have caused any problems.
- Current Pending Sector = THE MOST DANGEROUS smart attribute; this should ALWAYS BE ZERO or you have severe problems! This can be either weak electric charge with insufficient ECC correction ability -OR- it can be physical damage. Writing to this sector will solve the problem; if there was physical damage it will be realloacted by a reserve sector and the Reallocated Sector Count raw value will increase.
- UDMA CRC Error Count = cabling errors; if this is higher than 1000 and increasing you have severe cabling problems; under 100 does not need to trigger any alarm. Technically this means the receiving end did receive a corrupted version of the data that was sent by the transmitter; the corruption was detected by CRC which means the data is NOT accepted and the request will be sent again. Unless you see very high values or it keeps increasing steadily, this usually is not a big issue.
http://astechnica.com/civis/viewt...&t=1155702

I would run the Toshiba diagnostic tool just for your peace of mind.

http://storage.toshiba.com/storag...-utilities
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Quote from komondor : I would run the Toshiba diagnostic tool just for your peace of mind. http://storage.toshiba.com/storag...-utilities ]

I agree

I would also make sure you have a very good backup, and probably do it daily. I would say your drive is slowly on the way out . Since it is a new machine the OEM should warranty the drive as well.

Quote from komondor : I would run the Toshiba diagnostic tool just for your peace of mind. http://storage.toshiba.com/storag...-utilities ]

I tried running that on my windows7 64 pc and the stupid diagnostic software won't let me select the drive for testing..it just remains unhiglighted when I click on it..argh.

the "Reallocated Sectors Count" attribute's normalized value decreases as the count of reallocated sectors increases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

It starts at 100 and for every reallocated sector it decreases by 1. Meaning you've had 1 reallocated sector. Not a big deal, your ok.