Bad Sectors in Laptop HD
I have a laptop hard drive with 48KB of bad sectors.
Should I replace the hard drive?
If I replace the hard drive, what is the best way to get the data to the new hard drive using Acronis but without the bad sectors?
Or should I just reinstall everything.
Thank you.


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Michael, 48Kb of bad sectors doesn't sound like a reason to either replace the drive or reinstall everything but we only have very basic information here to understand the context for your question?
Are you seeing particular problems that you believe are caused by bad sectors on the laptop drive?
Do you have ATIH 2015 installed on the laptop and can you make backups of the entire laptop drive without any errors being reported?
If you do have a good full backup of the laptop hard drive created by ATIH 2015, then you could use this when the drive needs to be replaced by a new one and not have to reinstall everything.
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Thanks.
Yes, I have run: chkdsk /f /r
I ran chkdsk again and it is reporting that 48kb bad sectors but no other issues with the drive.
CrystalDiskInfo is reporting:
Reallocated sector count: 1
Current Pending sector count: 66
Yes. I can do full backups without errors.
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Maybe try the trial of hard disk sentinel and see if it displays the percentage of hard disk life left on the drive. If things are working OK, an Windows has detected the bad sectors and marked them, hopefully all is well. Never hurts to run some additional diagnostics to try and confirm though.
http://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php
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Thanks.
Estimated life time is: 565 days per Hard Disk Sentinel.
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Sounds good. Just keep an eye on it and be sure to take frequent backups, just in case.
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