2010-03-12, 08:21 PM
A couple of days ago, my laptop's HDD started to fail, I kept getting messages to back-up my stuff and so I did, just it case something bad really happened to it. After shutting it off and trying to get back on Windows 7, I couldn't get to the login screen after many tries and decided to leave it alone.
Fortunately, I had a live USB of Back Track 3, so I used that to scan the laptop's HDD using the "badblocks /dev/sda2" command on Konsole. After about a day of scanning, it finally finished and I got:
"Pass completed, 1600 bad blocks found."
I don't know much about hardware, so I'm hoping someone here knows what I should do next? Format it? Get another HDD? Anything else I can do? My highest priority is, of course, trying to see if there's a way to fix it, but if it's already dead, I'd have no problem with buying a new one.
Remember, I have my stuff backed-up, so deleting everything in it is no problem. Thank you for your time.
Fortunately, I had a live USB of Back Track 3, so I used that to scan the laptop's HDD using the "badblocks /dev/sda2" command on Konsole. After about a day of scanning, it finally finished and I got:
"Pass completed, 1600 bad blocks found."
I don't know much about hardware, so I'm hoping someone here knows what I should do next? Format it? Get another HDD? Anything else I can do? My highest priority is, of course, trying to see if there's a way to fix it, but if it's already dead, I'd have no problem with buying a new one.
Remember, I have my stuff backed-up, so deleting everything in it is no problem. Thank you for your time.