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Asked by perfectionmachinery in PC Laptops, Computer Hard Drives
I'm working with a small business owner who relies heavily on one Dell D600 laptop for everything he does. Past issues (hive file corruption, etc) indicate a problem with the laptop's harddrive. So, to verify, I ran Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test utility on it twice. It confirmed that there are bad sectors on the drive.
The laptop is working properly at the moment. The laptop's data is safe: I've set it up with a regular backup via Mozy. But a bad disk means potential for other issues, possibly emminent drive failure.
My question: what's the best course of action at this time?: replace the drive, repair the bad sectors, or leave it alone? Replacement = Huge amount of work (i.e. probably a system rebuild) and the fee for my time might be better directed toward investing in a new laptop. Repair = I'm concerned that if I repair the bad sectors, I may actually break some installed software or the OS itself when the sectors are recovered/moved. Leave it alone = Wait until new problems arise and discuss a replacement then? (Not ideal since the user's business work could be interrupted for several days until issues are resolved.)
I'm open to suggestions.
Thanks.
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