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So I'm on Fedora here, and this hard drive is... Pretty bad. While reformatting this device, there are quite a lot of bad sectors. I've read that just a few is cause for concern, and this I would say is slightly more than a few. The recovery files are empty, and there's no actual data I can access so I'm just reformatting this device and erasing it. So if let's say this device has over 7 million, just throw it out? 

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3 minutes ago, BadluckBrian said:

So I'm on Fedora here, and this hard drive is... Pretty bad. While reformatting this device, there are quite a lot of bad sectors. I've read that just a few is cause for concern, and this I would say is slightly more than a few. The recovery files are empty, and there's no actual data I can access so I'm just reformatting this device and erasing it. So if let's say this device has over 7 million, just throw it out? 

what's the total size? how much is that impacting on the actual spec vs just the pool of reserved sectors for replacing these?

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30 minutes ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

what's the total size? how much is that impacting on the actual spec vs just the pool of reserved sectors for replacing these?

Background - HP computer that had the blue screen. Size - 302 gb all personal data is gone. There's a 17 Gb recovery partition with nothing identified. 

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3 hours ago, BadluckBrian said:

Background - HP computer that had the blue screen. Size - 302 gb all personal data is gone. There's a 17 Gb recovery partition with nothing identified. 

yeah at that size it's probably pretty bad, likely irrecoverable.

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9 minutes ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

yeah at that size it's probably pretty bad, likely irrecoverable.

Well I just put Fedora on it after deleting partitions lol it'll be fine Kappa

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Just now, BadluckBrian said:

Well I just put Fedora on it after deleting partitions lol it'll be fine Kappa

yeah Smart is going to avoid the bad sectors but the performance drop is going to be huge.... HDD are already slow i wouldn't want to have to use that....

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8 minutes ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

yeah Smart is going to avoid the bad sectors but the performance drop is going to be huge.... HDD are already slow i wouldn't want to have to use that....

Agreed, but I'll just use it till it dies lol. Then I'll get a 2tb drive and put partitions on it for each OS

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