Reallocated Sector Count FAIL

[Twoiko]

I just dled disk checkup today when I found it because I noticed that my 4 month old laptop has been going really slow since my reformat. What's been happening is the HD light keeps coming on every 2 seconds or so and I don't know why. I've tried closing all non-essential programs but there aren't many, since it was just reformatted. So, here are the results:
DiskCheckup Version: DiskCheckup V2.0 Build: 1004
SmartDisk DLL Version: SmartDisk DLL SDK v1.0 Build: 1012
Time of export: 17:05:38 18-Mar-2007
Device ID: 0
Device Capacity: 76316 MB
Serial Number: 5PK1YTPT
Model Number: ST98823A
Firmware Revision: 3.05
Partitions:
C: 76308 MB
IDE Registers:
Features: 0x0
Sector Count: 0x1
Sector Number: 0x1
Cylinder Low: 0x0
Cylinder High: 0x0
Drive Head: 0xA0
Command: 0xEC
ID Sector:
Cylinders: 16383
Heads: 16
Sectors per track: 63
Cur Cyls: 16383
Cur Heads: 16
Cur Sectors/Track: 63
Bytes per track: N.A.
Sectors per track: N.A.
Gen Config: 3162
Buffer Type: 0
Buffer Size: 16384
Vendor Unique: 0 0 0
More Vendor Unique: 0x8010
ECC Size: 4
Double Word IO: 0
Capabilities: 12032
PIO Timing: 512
DMA Timing: 512
BS: 7
Current Sector Capacity: 16514064
Total Addressable Sectors: 156301488
Mult. Sector Stuff: 272
Single Word DMA: 0
Multi Word DMA: 7That's just the drive info, here are the scan results:
SMART ATTRIBUTES:
ID Description Raw Value Status Value Worst Threshold TEC
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Raw Read Error Rate 0 OK 100 253 6 N.A.
3 Spin Up Time 0ms OK 95 94 0 N.A.
4 Start/Stop Count 761 OK 100 100 20 N.A.
5 Reallocated Sector Count 62869 FAIL 1 1 36 N.A.
7 Seek Error Rate 53447977 OK 77 60 30 N.A.
9 Power On Time 2711 OK 97 97 0 N.A.
A Spin Retry Count 0 OK 100 100 34 N.A.
C Power Cycle Count 572 OK 100 100 20 N.A.
BB (Unknown attribute) 65535 OK 1 1 0 N.A.
BD (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 100 100 0 N.A.
BE (Unknown attribute) 740753451 OK 57 46 45 N.A.
C0 Power off Retract Count 72 OK 100 100 0 N.A.
C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 43467 OK 79 79 0 N.A.
C2 Temperature 43 C OK 43 54 0 N.A.
C3 (Unknown attribute) 38032146 OK 64 53 0 N.A.
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 OK 100 100 0 N.A.
C6 Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 OK 100 100 0 N.A.
C7 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 0 OK 200 200 0 N.A.
C8 Write Error Count 0 OK 100 253 0 N.A.
CA Direct Address Mark Error Rate 0 OK 100 253 0 N.A.
Notice the Reallocated Sector Count failed, I was wondering what might be the problem, I have been thinking that the best solution might just be to format again but I'm worried that won't do it and that there might be a simpler solution that I don't know about. Also just wondering what else looks to be a problem from these results, thanks for your help.

[passmark]

It is normal for Windows (especially Vista) to access the hard drive a lot.

It is also typical for PC's to slow down as more and more junk gets load on to them.

What is not normal is a FAIL on the SMART data for Reallocated Sector Count. And a reformat is unlikely to fix the real problem.

Your drive is a Seagate Momentus 5400.2. I would try and download some of the Seagate tools to see if you can get any additional information, then I would look at trying to get the laptop repaired under warranty.

[Twoiko]

The idea is that my laptop never did this before, only since the reformat... Also, as I said, I formatted, there's MUCH less space being taken than before, when it worked fine.

[passmark]

IMHO, the drive is stuffed. So even if you don't try and get it replaced, at least keep good backups.