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. Thank You,
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?
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.
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.
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.