Is this a legitimate hard drive issue?, or did I get scammed.

froggyribbits · Jul 25, 2018

My computer has recently been experience system (Bluescreen with WHEA-UNCORRECTABLE-ERROR), and after troubleshooting for hours, I gave up. So I brought it to a tech support person. The man took the pc for a couple days and returned it saying that he had te mporarily fixed the issue and to call him back later if it came back. He told the issue was in my hard drive and that there was a corrupted spot on the drive and he had 'taught' the drive to stay away from it, and never write data on it again. He then promptly charged my $120 and sent me home. After a few days, the problem started occurring again. I just want to know before I bring it back to this guy, is he bullshitting me?

asoroka · Jul 25, 2018

It sounds like your disk has bad sectors, he basically did a diskcheck to fix your file system and mark those sectors as bad so that they would not be used again.

No comment on rate charged as he has a business to run.

He should have told you to immediately get a new HDD and copy off any valuable data.

The fact that you have more bad sectors is a real red flag.

This should be your priority, get a new HDD (internal or usb external) and save all your data before the disk becomes totally unresponsive.
You can either clone your existing disk or better still reinstall everything afresh.

shmoochie · Jul 26, 2018

If he were ethical, he would have provided a permanent solution as an option. He definitely wanted you to come back.

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