- Jun 8, 2014
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Hi everyone,
A few hours ago I accidentially dropped my laptop from my desk shelf to the floor. The distance is about 60-70cm. Cpu, motherboard ram and graphics card seem to be working fine. I watched a whole 2-hours movie without a single problem. However I'm having some trouble with my hard drive. Some of my music files cannot be played by the media player or the player just skips some parts (10-20 seconds).
I checked with disk utility (I am running Ubuntu) and it initially showed 17 bad sectors. After doing some reboots, checking things and generally testing everything the bad sector count raised to 21. It's been at that value quite a while now.
I suppose that most, if not all, of these bad sectors were caused by the fall, but my question is: Does this mean that the bad sector count is finally going to settle to a number or is it going to rise and the hard drive will eventually die?
P.S: Disk Utility considers 200 bad sectors as a threshold for not passing the test, though I don't know if this is accurate enough.
A few hours ago I accidentially dropped my laptop from my desk shelf to the floor. The distance is about 60-70cm. Cpu, motherboard ram and graphics card seem to be working fine. I watched a whole 2-hours movie without a single problem. However I'm having some trouble with my hard drive. Some of my music files cannot be played by the media player or the player just skips some parts (10-20 seconds).
I checked with disk utility (I am running Ubuntu) and it initially showed 17 bad sectors. After doing some reboots, checking things and generally testing everything the bad sector count raised to 21. It's been at that value quite a while now.
I suppose that most, if not all, of these bad sectors were caused by the fall, but my question is: Does this mean that the bad sector count is finally going to settle to a number or is it going to rise and the hard drive will eventually die?
P.S: Disk Utility considers 200 bad sectors as a threshold for not passing the test, though I don't know if this is accurate enough.
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