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Hi,
This seems like a good thread to comment now.
I have this friend's PC. It's an old laptop. It has a single drive, a Hitachi DK23FA. It's IDE, 80GB.
I formatted the drive with NTFS, installed WinXP, and then created another partition. When aligning there was an error:
Then I did a surface scan with Partition Wizard and found ONE bad sector:
I tried finding Hitachi tools with a link provided but it seems there are not since it's old.
So right now I'm running DRevitalize (attached image). I will let it finish, but I believe there will be just that one bad sector.
Should I tell my friend to replace the drive?
It won't be used for any personal or valuable information, just the OS.
I used to believe that once there's one bad sector I should replace the drive. If it were MINE I'd replace it, since I store valuable info. But this is not the case.
It also made a strange noise randomly when writing data.
Any opinion?
Thanks in advance.