How to fix disk that is likely to fail soon?
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No way. SMART is a hardware test. And Reallocated Sectors is one of the important. If the value is actually increasing, find a replacement disk now and leave this one for nonimportant data. However, I have an HDD which has this parameter bad for years already, but the number of bad sectors is not increaing.
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Eric Carvalho over 1 year
Can I repair my hard disk?
I am a beginner with Ubuntu and I don't know how I can fix my hard drive or if it can be repaired.
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Admin about 10 yearsalso see askubuntu.com/questions/386987/… and superuser.com/questions/26842/… - if it were only for this single reallocated sector I would not worry much but you also had a lot of read errors. This should not be on a 7 months old drive - RMA it if possible, or replace it soon.
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