• Reassess "failing" harddrive
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I have Wd green 2tb drive that has been running fine and with no problems for the past 3-4 months. While copying some files yesterday my roommate caused my router to fall and hit the computer causing a BSod. During this time I believe the drive had the write errors that are causing it to believe it is dying. It says there are currently 494 bad sectors. I have no idea if ~2 megabytes of bad space is the sign of my drive dying or just a side effect of the accident. Is there any way to scan for real damage or is this something I don't need to worry about.
100+ bad sectors is pretty bad regardless.
[QUOTE=MIPS;25859609]100+ bad sectors is pretty bad regardless.[/QUOTE] [img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3655261/fuck/Untitled.png[/img_thumb] 100+ you say? (Glad I've still got the warranty of my drive. This happened a few days ago. Lost about 750 gig of stuff. The icons were not usually large like that.)
HE-HE-HE-HEADCRASH! Read/wright head hit the magnetic platter.
Funny, my WD green died too 2 days ago. I think it's the WD green apocalypse.
[QUOTE=maurits150;25872216]Funny, my WD green died too 2 days ago. I think it's the WD green apocalypse.[/QUOTE] WD Black 1TB was what died for me.
If it passes SMART, then just zero out the drive and reinstall Windows.
[QUOTE=Blarg190;25862518]HE-HE-HE-HEADCRASH! Read/wright head hit the magnetic platter.[/QUOTE] Happened once with my MacBook. Apparently I dropped it right on the corner where the hard drive is. If your hard drive has fallen and now it doesn't work right, it's the R/W head hitting the platter.
[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;25879729]Happened once with my MacBook. Apparently I dropped it right on the corner where the hard drive is. If your hard drive has fallen and now it doesn't work right, it's the R/W head hitting the platter.[/QUOTE] This happened with my old Gateway laptop. Not to mention it was already sent to me for my birthday a few years ago with the R/W heads grinding against the platters occasionally. I happened to make it worse by dropping it 3 feet onto my own lap. ... I hate spiders. It was really super slow due to the damage on the R/W heads and the platters. Eventually it started to BSoD while I wasn't looking, and then say "Operating system not found" on boot.
Slightly off topic on topic question. I have a 160 GB drive here that has one bad sector. Should I be really concerned? The hard drive causes the computer it was originally in to hang on POST, but I moved it to my Dell and it works fine and have Ubuntu installed on it, with Windows 7 on the 80 GB hard drive. But should I be terribly concerned with 1 bad sector? Is it going to get worse as I use it?
Actually, don't Macbooks have accelerometers that can detect free fall and lock the head safely away from the platter?
[QUOTE=Agent766;25884995]Actually, don't Macbooks have accelerometers that can detect free fall and lock the head safely away from the platter?[/QUOTE]Yep.
[QUOTE=Agent766;25884995]Actually, don't Macbooks have accelerometers that can detect free fall and lock the head safely away from the platter?[/QUOTE] Yes, but I dropped it from about a foot and a half, within the zone where it doesn't lock or doesn't have time to yet still damages it. It was pretty damn unlucky.
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