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 Member 13474 Level 8.89 Oct 2006 
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I also tried the software, and it proved rather useful, a bunch of times. And it DID recover physically bad sectors, as mentioned here.
The only drawback might be the recovery time. It took me around 2 days to recover a 40Gb Maxtor HDD. This can be annoying if you have a huge Drive. Nonetheless, it wouldn't be a really safe solution, as the recovered sectors have a slightly reduced lifetime, and are still threatened of premature failure. You should probably check out your HDD Health, using any S.M.A.R.T. featured tool (i usually rely on SpeedFan's In-Depth Analysis). You will want to replace it ASAP, if it reports a critical HDD status. =/ Jam it back in, in the dark. |
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