Bad Sector Bonanza

[MadmanRB]

So pulled this out of my fathers laptop, he was having boot issues and its no wonder if gnome disks is to be believed:

Dare I say it?

Do I have to say it?

Okay I will say it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiMHTK15Pik

 

[Yami]

Yeah it's a wee bit dead that drive.

 

[MadmanRB]

Yeah, funny thing is that my fathers hard drive died the same time as one of mine.
I have a seagate I salvaged from a HP desktop, 4 bad sectors but kicked around for a year or so before giving up

 

[Yami]

I work in digital forensics, and thankfully I don't touch that part of the business any more, because bad sectors were the bane of my life. Whenever imaging a drive, if we ran into a single bad sector we had to re-image, and then again if there were still bad sectors. After three attempts we'd keep the image with the least bad sectors.

This made the process of imaging a drive - which often we'd have to leave overnight due to the volumes and old age of some drives - much longer than it would be otherwise.

 

[carnageX]

Rofl - double checked that sector count with another SMART tool?

 

[MadmanRB]

Rofl - double checked that sector count with another SMART tool?

Yeah I did, still the same insane number no matter the tool on both windows and linux

 

[carnageX]

Guess its safe to say the disk is toast then .