sawtoothgrin
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I recently suffered HDD failure and managed to backup all important data from the drive after quite a bit of help from forum members and a few hours of research. Here is a link to said post: http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/856902-solved-hdd-failure-help-recovery.html
My question now is this: Is this drive reliable after suffering the failure that it did? If it were to boot in it's current state, could I trust it or has it's integrity been permanently breached? If I were to reformat said drive, would that fix the bad sectors, errors, or whatever else was wrong with it?
Or should I use this drive as nothing more than a paper weight at this point?
Thanks in advance for any advice
My question now is this: Is this drive reliable after suffering the failure that it did? If it were to boot in it's current state, could I trust it or has it's integrity been permanently breached? If I were to reformat said drive, would that fix the bad sectors, errors, or whatever else was wrong with it?
Or should I use this drive as nothing more than a paper weight at this point?
Thanks in advance for any advice