Most people use their computers day in and day out, and chances are you do as well.
Do you ever think about what would happen if a hard drive crash or other disaster wiped away all of their precious files?
Q&A: Is it safe to keep using a hard drive after doing a low-level format to lock out bad sectors?
Question from Tom J.: I have a 4TB Seagate external hard drive that recently came down with a bunch of bad sectors even though it’s only about 2 years old.
A friend of mine said I could do a low level format of the drive to lock out the bad sectors and the rest of the drive would work just fine.
What’s your opinion on this? I hate to just trash a drive that large when it still has most of its capacity available, but I don’t want to risk losing my files either.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]