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Repairing bad sectors in an external drive
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this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2024
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Also interested ! But I read through my long search that bad sectors on a drive... Is a sign that your drive is failing and that there is nothing you can do about it.
Your drive will probably accumulate more and more bad sectors until it becomes unusable (there is some threshold).
There is however a way to "mark" them but thats just a temporary solution. I wouldn't put important/critical data on it (pictures, backups, OS...)
No, they're not trying to recover data, they're trying to copy data to the disk, to store backups, which they should absolutely not do, that disk is not fit as backup storage.
To be fair, i was trying to store some multimedia files on the drive. They are not essential(i have those essential files on another hdd). It will be good if i can use more of the potentially faulty hdd because then i can move more of these low priority media files to this drive and keep my main external drive free for important things.