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Can I repair my hard disk?

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I am a beginner with Ubuntu and I don't know how I can fix my hard drive or if it can be repaired.

Eric Carvalho
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  • also see http://askubuntu.com/questions/386987/difference-between-smart-reallocated-sectors-and-bad-sectors and http://superuser.com/questions/26842/can-i-trust-a-hard-drive-that-has-had-to-reallocate-sectors - 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. – Takkat Mar 23 '14 at 14:40

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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.

Barafu Albino
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