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What should I do about my external HDD?
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<blockquote data-quote="AtlBo" data-source="post: 657606" data-attributes="member: 32547"><p>It means that Windows has marked the sectors and is going to disable them to avoid using them. It's only two sectors, but bad sectors are the beginning of the end. As mentioned by [USER=64646]@askalan[/USER] since it's a backup drive it should be OK for a while. Hard Disk Sentinel will tell you if it starts to go down hill. In the settings there is a setting you can set for notifications. Configurations->Preferences->Alerts->check to see a notification when drive health is below 50%/play a sound.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AtlBo, post: 657606, member: 32547"] It means that Windows has marked the sectors and is going to disable them to avoid using them. It's only two sectors, but bad sectors are the beginning of the end. As mentioned by [USER=64646]@askalan[/USER] since it's a backup drive it should be OK for a while. Hard Disk Sentinel will tell you if it starts to go down hill. In the settings there is a setting you can set for notifications. Configurations->Preferences->Alerts->check to see a notification when drive health is below 50%/play a sound. [/QUOTE]
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