I have a Toshiba Satellite P745 with 750 GB internal HD, I ran Hard disk generator 2011 (from a bootable CD) over night, after 14 hours it got to 0.64% scanning 4500 Mbytes and finding 560 bad sectors 116 of them was regenerated.
I canelled the operation because it seemed like something was wrong. My questions are:
1-What's the acceptable number of bad sectors in any HD?
2-Should I re-do the scan even with that speed? the software told me to change my BIOS settings from AHCI to compatability, is that the reason the oepration ran so slowly?
3-Is my HD dead?
4-If I get a replacement can I use the old one as an external storage after chopping off the bad part of it?(even If I can use 100-500GB out of 750!)
5-would any internal HD work as a replacement?
6-Is it better for my laptop's preformance to get a smaller hard drive (say 320GB)?
7-Will the system recovery disks work after the replacement (even if it was a smaller hard drive)?
I canelled the operation because it seemed like something was wrong. My questions are:
1-What's the acceptable number of bad sectors in any HD?
2-Should I re-do the scan even with that speed? the software told me to change my BIOS settings from AHCI to compatability, is that the reason the oepration ran so slowly?
3-Is my HD dead?
4-If I get a replacement can I use the old one as an external storage after chopping off the bad part of it?(even If I can use 100-500GB out of 750!)
5-would any internal HD work as a replacement?
6-Is it better for my laptop's preformance to get a smaller hard drive (say 320GB)?
7-Will the system recovery disks work after the replacement (even if it was a smaller hard drive)?