Failing Hard Drive and Avoiding Bad Platters and Heads

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MrDill

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I have a Segate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD Constellation ES.3 SAS ST4000NM0023 that is failing. I do have it backed up already.

Only about 1/3 of this 4TB HD is full.

This HD has 5 disks and 10 heads.

I am wondering if there is a way to move my files from the damaged platters/disks to the good one's and continue to use this HD until I can get a replacement?

I have Windows and Program Files running on a SSD. This failing drives has my USER Profile, Application Data, Documents, etc.

Thanks,
ScottK
 
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dextermat
Usually windows manage bad sectors by itself.
The more you use the disk the more it degrades and the more you have chance in running into trouble (windows file corruption, data lost).
The drive can be usable for years as it can fail in the following minutes.
Personally, I would get a new hard drive asap and clone the defective to new one.
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Usually windows manage bad sectors by itself.
The more you use the disk the more it degrades and the more you have chance in running into trouble (windows file corruption, data lost).
The drive can be usable for years as it can fail in the following minutes.
Personally, I would get a new hard drive asap and clone the defective to new one.
 
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Windows and/or the drive firmware will try to manage damaged sectors.
But eventually, there are no extras to manage with.
And you can't manually wall off certain platters and not use them.

A failing drive is a failing drive. And all drives fail eventually.

And generally, moving your whole /Users/ folder to a different drive is a bad idea:
http://www.zdnet.com/dont-move-your-windows-user-profiles-folder-to-another-drive-7000022142/
 
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RolandJS

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In older days, Gibson Research Corp's Spinrite actually worked walling off bad sectors/clusters. Then, data recovery, for me, consisted of restoring previously-made full images. Today, I'm not sure if Spinrite would successfully wall off bad areas on present hard-drives.
 
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