Bad sector Hard drive!

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Krishan Mourya

Krishan Mourya

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So I have a 500GB Seagate hard drive which is 4 years old. It's OS got corrupted due to 37 bad sectors so I bought new hard drive, that is Toshiba 1TB. But as 37 bad sectors aren't too bad I thought I can use both drives while keeping important data on new drive and useless data on bad drive. So I wanted to know will that bad sector drive affect the new drive?
 
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Here's my opinion... Can the 37 bad sectors be reallocated or not? Is the sector reallocation number going up any?

The drive wont affect the new drive, but, when you are reading/writing on that drive, you run the potential of causing the OS to hang because it's waiting on that drive to do its job.

I personally wouldn't bother with a drive that is obviously going bad, even for junk data.
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Potentially if files find their way between the drives as can happen with Antivirus logs and some windows files, why not just back up the data you need and do a format of the old HDD?
Actually why not just chuck it? 37 bad sectors is heaps, sounds like that one is ready for the trash.
Have you attempted a recovery of the bad sectors through the tools tab of the HDD itself?
 
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Here's my opinion... Can the 37 bad sectors be reallocated or not? Is the sector reallocation number going up any?

The drive wont affect the new drive, but, when you are reading/writing on that drive, you run the potential of causing the OS to hang because it's waiting on that drive to do its job.

I personally wouldn't bother with a drive that is obviously going bad, even for junk data.
 
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