New hard drive issue.

Discussion in 'backup, imaging & disk mgmt' started by The Red Moon, Apr 13, 2017.

  1. The Red Moon

    The Red Moon Registered Member

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    About 6 months ago i purchased a new HDD for my laptop and to my horror it has over 600 bad sectors.Incredibly it has run fine and i currently use linux lite with no issues.
    When i buy a new HDD is there any formal procedures i should perform before installing a linux distro.?
    Before i just bought the HDD and formatted it then installed the distro.

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  2. roger_m

    roger_m Registered Member

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    There's nothing special you need to do, it seems you just got unlucky and got a bad drive. What software reported the bad errors?
     
  3. The Red Moon

    The Red Moon Registered Member

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    hi roger,
    The gnome disk utility is reporting the errors.It does not seem to affect the system in any profound way,just thought maybe i should of done some form of special formatting prior to install.
    But indeed i think your right i may have been unlucky in that regard.
     
  4. roger_m

    roger_m Registered Member

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    If you were able to try the drive in Windows. Hard Disk Sentinel, reads the SMART diagnostic data from a hard drive, and gives a very good explanation of the condition of the drive, and if it needs to be replaced.
     
  5. gorblimey

    gorblimey Registered Member

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    The act of formatting rounds up the bad sectors and fences them off. Chkdsk will do the same, but attempt to recover data fromn the sectors. I assume the same holds for *nix. DId you check the label on the HDD for a bad sector count? 600 is on the dodgy side these days.
     
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