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This is only tangentially related to my question, and IMO, is more of a comment and less of an answer. But as a reply to your post, yes, I have indeed made a backup of my important files, and will be replacing the hard drive as soon as I am able to. My hard drive still has life left to it though, as I am still using it daily and no more bad sectors have arised.
– galacticninja
Commented Aug 24, 2014 at 16:53
Its worth taking into account when deciding what to do though. In the longer term, bad sectors and corrupted data is a sign something is wrong, and backing up and replacing the drive is probably the smart thing, even if its not an answer the OP wants to hear.
– Journeyman Geek ♦
Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 0:46

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