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Where are all of these extra sectors coming from?

Modern disks have a pool of spare sectors that can be swapped with damaged sectors.

This is called the Spare Sector Pool.

Spare sector pools

 

All modern hard disk drives have a spare sector pool. This is used when bad sectors develop during the normal life of the hard disk and any new bad sectors are 'replaced' with good ones from the spare sector pool. This process is invisible to the user and will probably never know that anything has changed.

Source Bad sector remapping

How can I get some kind of warning so I can replace my hard drive before it dies?

Use smart monitoring software.

See the following questions for more information:

Where are all of these extra sectors coming from?

Modern disks have a pool of spare sectors that can be swapped with damaged sectors.

This is called the Spare Sector Pool.

Spare sector pools

 

All modern hard disk drives have a spare sector pool. This is used when bad sectors develop during the normal life of the hard disk and any new bad sectors are 'replaced' with good ones from the spare sector pool. This process is invisible to the user and will probably never know that anything has changed.

Source Bad sector remapping

How can I get some kind of warning so I can replace my hard drive before it dies?

Use smart monitoring software.

See the following questions for more information:

Where are all of these extra sectors coming from?

Modern disks have a pool of spare sectors that can be swapped with damaged sectors.

This is called the Spare Sector Pool.

Spare sector pools

All modern hard disk drives have a spare sector pool. This is used when bad sectors develop during the normal life of the hard disk and any new bad sectors are 'replaced' with good ones from the spare sector pool. This process is invisible to the user and will probably never know that anything has changed.

Source Bad sector remapping

How can I get some kind of warning so I can replace my hard drive before it dies?

Use smart monitoring software.

See the following questions for more information:

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Where are all of these extra sectors coming from?

Modern disks have a pool of spare sectors that can be swapped with damaged sectors.

This is called the Spare Sector Pool.

Spare sector pools

All modern hard disk drives have a spare sector pool. This is used when bad sectors develop during the normal life of the hard disk and any new bad sectors are 'replaced' with good ones from the spare sector pool. This process is invisible to the user and will probably never know that anything has changed.

Source Bad sector remapping

How can I get some kind of warning so I can replace my hard drive before it dies?

Use smart monitoring software.

See the following questions for more information:

Where are all of these extra sectors coming from?

Modern disks have a pool of spare sectors that can be swapped with damaged sectors.

This is called the Spare Sector Pool.

Spare sector pools

All modern hard disk drives have a spare sector pool. This is used when bad sectors develop during the normal life of the hard disk and any new bad sectors are 'replaced' with good ones from the spare sector pool. This process is invisible to the user and will probably never know that anything has changed.

Source Bad sector remapping

How can I get some kind of warning so I can replace my hard drive before it dies?

Use smart monitoring software.

See the following questions for more information:

Where are all of these extra sectors coming from?

Modern disks have a pool of spare sectors that can be swapped with damaged sectors.

This is called the Spare Sector Pool.

Spare sector pools

All modern hard disk drives have a spare sector pool. This is used when bad sectors develop during the normal life of the hard disk and any new bad sectors are 'replaced' with good ones from the spare sector pool. This process is invisible to the user and will probably never know that anything has changed.

Source Bad sector remapping

How can I get some kind of warning so I can replace my hard drive before it dies?

Use smart monitoring software.

See the following questions for more information:

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Where are all of these extra sectors coming from?

Modern disks have a pool of spare sectors that can be swapped with damaged sectors.

This is called the Spare Sector Pool.

Modern storage mediums have an in-built spare sector pool that can help repairing logical bad sectors. The pool is responsible for replacing the bad sector (if developed on a hard drive) with usable, good sectors (in the pool), allowing user to seamlessly read and write data without facing any issues.Spare sector pools

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Source What Are Physical & Logical Bad Sectors Of Hard Drive And How To Repair Them [Guide]Bad sector remapping

How can I get some kind of warning so I can replace my hard drive before it dies?

Use smart monitoring software.

See the following questions for more information:

Where are all of these extra sectors coming from?

Modern disks have a pool of spare sectors that can be swapped with damaged sectors.

This is called the Spare Sector Pool.

Modern storage mediums have an in-built spare sector pool that can help repairing logical bad sectors. The pool is responsible for replacing the bad sector (if developed on a hard drive) with usable, good sectors (in the pool), allowing user to seamlessly read and write data without facing any issues.

However, the number of sectors designated to spare sector pool is limited, and if it runs out of spare sectors and then the hard disk develops a bad sector, users can fix them by either re-mapping the logical sectors with physical sectors using hard disk remapping utilities, or using zero-fill programs like DBAN, KIllDIsk etc., to fill the entire hard disk with zero bytes.

Source What Are Physical & Logical Bad Sectors Of Hard Drive And How To Repair Them [Guide]

How can I get some kind of warning so I can replace my hard drive before it dies?

Use smart monitoring software.

See the following questions for more information:

Where are all of these extra sectors coming from?

Modern disks have a pool of spare sectors that can be swapped with damaged sectors.

This is called the Spare Sector Pool.

Spare sector pools

All modern hard disk drives have a spare sector pool. This is used when bad sectors develop during the normal life of the hard disk and any new bad sectors are 'replaced' with good ones from the spare sector pool. This process is invisible to the user and will probably never know that anything has changed.

Source Bad sector remapping

How can I get some kind of warning so I can replace my hard drive before it dies?

Use smart monitoring software.

See the following questions for more information:

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