Ran NDD on my wife's Lombard the other day and was informed that there are irreparable "bad blocks." Is this a harbinger of total HD failure and is there really nothing that can be done about it?
A sector on a hard drive can go bad for a number of reasons; oxidation, light head strike, etc. They rarely die individually. And once one dies, the ones around it may be efffected.
Make good backups *immediately*, and keep them up-to-date.
When you get a chance, you can try reformatting the HD. Give it a good exercise (write all zeros, etc) to make sure ALL the bad blocks get mapped out.
And start shopping for a replacement... the reformat might fix things (more or less), but it never hurts to have some xtra storage available. :)
- Dan.
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