Bad Sector ! Is there any way to solve it !?

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shab_2008

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Hi there ,

Unfortunately , my HDD ( WD caviar black 1TB ) got the bad sector!

About 3 days I've been searching to find some solution about this problem , but there is no absolute solution to solve it !

I want to know , what's your idea about solving the bad sector ?

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There are no fixes. Sectors are automatically marked bad when they fail. Back up your data, if lots of them are going bad the drive is failing and you need to buy a new one. End of story
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manofchalk

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Drives just get bad sectors, you cant prevent it from happening and and theres no way to fix it as they are literal broken parts of the magnetic plate. All the HDD can do is say their "bad" and make itself not write there. A drive is fine to have up to a certain threshold of bad sectors before it will consider itself in danger of failing. When it hits that threshold, you should get a number of annoying Windows popups telling you so.

How to solve a bad sector problem.
1. Buy a new drive and copy everything over while the drive still works.

That being said, it is not catastrophic. My Seagate Barracuda 1TB (3-5yrs old) gave me a bad sector threshold warning about 3 months ago, still works fine as a storage drive. If I was using it as a primary drive I imagine that it would have failed by now, but being a storage drive where the most it does is play music and movies, its not going anywhere quick.
Still, I'm aware that it could fail any day now and back it up occasionally to another HDD I have in my rig (another Seagate 1TB actually).
 
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Hawkeye22

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It's been a while since I have had to do a WD return, but the last time I did one, all I needed to do was run WD's data lifeguard utility and send them a screen shot along with the drive's serial number. They didn't even want their old drive back, just sent me a new one. It may be different now.
 
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