Hard drive had reallocated sectors...but now it magically doesn't! Can I trust it?
- by rob
Last week my SMART diagnostics utility, CrystalDiskInfo, reported that the external hard drive that I was saving my backups to had suddenly reported 900+ reallocated sectors. I double-checked to confirm, then ordered a replacement drive.
I spent all of this week copying data from that drive to the new drive. But toward the end of the copy,…