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Is my HDD failing?
I tried to resize a partition of my 3-year-old HDD using gparted, but it failed and displayed a message saying that there were bad blocks and that was a sign of physical damage to the drive.
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Do bad clusters on modern (as of 2020) SSD indicate hardware failure?
I've got a Samsung 970 Evo 2TB SSD that has been working perfectly for a year and a half, under a mostly-read load.
Recently, while updating Windows to the 2004 release, the OS got stuck in the ...
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How to recover soft bad sectors
How to get rid of soft bad sectors obtained from cloning a faulty disc?
I have a EFI HDD with some bad sectors from a DELL computer. It's been causing headache for quite some time. So want to replace ...
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How to interpret S.M.A.R.T and Badblocks results
I have bought a used SSHD ( Seagate Laptop SSHD - ST500LM000-1EJ162 ) on ebay. Regarding to S.M.A.R.T the disk might be damaged somehow, I am not sure. To correctly interpret the S.M.A.R.T values, I ...
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Does having some Bad Sectors indicate that the drive will crash soon?
I have a Hitachi HTS723232L9SA62 320Gb 7200RPM HDD. I checked the SMART status and there are 3 bad sectors, totaling 1.5MB. This means that approximately 0.00046875% of my hard drive has gone bad.
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Can BSOD cause bad sectors on a hard drive?
What I mentioned as "bad sectors" here are quoted from following scan/test:
result from CHKDSK, referred as "Bad Sectors" on the report screen.
result from HD Tune - Error Scan, referred as "...
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How to make smartd shut up about one particular offline uncorrectable sector?
I have a disk in a two-disk software RAID-1 for which recently an "offline uncorrectable sector" appeared in the SMART status.
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age ...
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Should the Current Pending Sector value change during a format with bad block checking on?
I have a drive that has had a few file corruptions. It seems to be due to getting very hot at some point in the past, the max reported temperature is 99C ! I've recovered as much data from it as I can ...
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