Fixing bad sectors with WD Data Lifeguard?

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XGamer_BiH

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Hello everyone,

I have slow perfomance on pc, because of my HDD "almost" breakdown. So, I decided to test it with the Data Lifeguard from WD, it failed, so it asked me to try fix them. I read somewhere that 80gb takes about 40 minutes, and my is 1tb, so over about 10hours. I will leave it at night. So my question is, will that tool fix some of them, or just waist my time, and will I loose ANY kind of data? Thanks in advance
 
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DeadRam

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Hard drive tools can't fix the bad sectors, they only map them as bad so the OS doesn't write data to those sectors. I would backup your data, purchase a new hard drive and restore the data. Keep the bad hard drive as a backup but only to recover data if the need arises.
 
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Well there are not too much bad sectors, I mean there were, but not anymore (about 30 right now), but I felt a big perfomance breakdown. The problem is I don't have an another drive to back up 600gb of files.

 
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Well it was 100% healthy, dropped to 90% and in 2 days to 55%, and repaired itself to 83% in a few days.

 
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It was a long time on 100% health, dropped to 90%, and in a few days to 55%, in a few days started going up and stopped at 83%, since then it doesn't move anymore. I'll try that.

 
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