Windows 10: will file history alert me if the physical hard drive encounters bad sectors or other...

will file history alert me if the physical hard drive encounters bad sectors or other errors, or do i have to rely on other means of detecting a failing "history" disk? Expecially external. Should I? Can I... mirror two external drives if not?

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HDD Bad Sector

Hi Nataniel!

I am not sure what your question is exactly, but one thing I'd recommend for sure will be to look for a replacement drive since there is already a bad sector on your current one.

Basically there are two kinds of bad sectors - hardware and software:

• Hardware ones are caused by physical damage or becoming magnetically fixed, and they are unrepairable. In short, once they appear it's only a matter of time (no way to say how long) until the HDD fails.
• Software bad sectors on the other hand occur when something called an Error Correction Code (ECC) doesn't match the contents of the hard drive. These can be repaired by overwriting the data on the drive with zeroes (a.k.a. low level formatting) and sometimes
  by running a **chkdsk [write the letter of the drive:] /r** in the CMD.

As for getting the information from the drive if one of the partitions fail, most likely you won't be able to, which is why I'd suggest to make a regular backup of your most important data.

Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions you may have.

 

Bad sectors

There are two types of 'bad sector:'

A physical bad sector is bad because of some physical defect. It's not uncommon for a hard drive to have a few of these. Windows simply marks them as 'bad' so they won't be used for storage. You only need to worry if bad sectors begin to proliferate.

A logical bad sector is bad because of a software problem, e.g., Windows can't find it or its description has contradictory information. Running CHKDSK will usually fix that, but again, it's not uncommon and only a problem if Windows
tells you it's a problem.

All modern hard drives ship with a utility called S.M.A.R.T. whose purpose is to monitor the drive for problems and notify the user before problems become serious. If you're not getting a notification from S.M.A.R.T. and you're not receiving error messages
from Windows, you've got nothing to worry about.

If you still think there's a problem, then run the hard drive manufacturer's own drive diagnostic utility. You can download it from the manufacturer's website, and the manufacturer will show you how to interpret the results.

If you're determined to replace your hard drive, then I guess you'll do it anyway. But why go to the trouble if you don't really need to?

 

Bad sectors on Seagate ST2000DM001 HDD. The end?

Hi, I'm Anvar, I'd be glad to help you today on this

A bad sector on a hard drive is simply a tiny cluster of storage space — a sector — of the hard drive that appears to be defective, it is a physical damage and there is a chance to develop more bad sectors. disk utility software such as CHKDSK, SCANDISK, Windows built-in bad sector repair tools to detect or repair bad sector but if the number of bad sectors increases it may take forever trying to fix and it will end up the Disk unusable gradually.

Suggest get all data backed up to a safer location and install new SSD/HDD instead of trying to fix it

Hope this helps. Let us know if you need further assistance.