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    About Hard drive bad sectors.

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by amir786_z, Mar 7, 2015.

  1. amir786_z

    amir786_z Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guys what are the causes of bad sectors how can I prevent my hard disk from it. Thanks.
     
    amir786_z, Mar 7, 2015
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    Material degradation caused by temperature variations, slight differences in motor balancing, particles inside the drive and moving the drive while in operation.

    Reduce movement where possible while in use and keep it away from environmental extremes where possible.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 7, 2015
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    amir786_z Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks Meaker. :) I keep that in mind
     
    amir786_z, Mar 8, 2015
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    To be fair you should not worry to much, just don't shake the machine or throw it about while it is on and don't leave it in your car on a hot summers day. If you use common sense unless you got a bad drive it should be fine.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 8, 2015
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    baii Sone

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    Usually it is impact shock or pure luck. Most if not all modern machine have some kind of accelerometer based software to stop the hard drive when needed.

    Sent from my 306SH
     
    baii, Mar 8, 2015
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    amir786_z Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks guys. ☺ new stuff gets u concerned
     
    amir786_z, Mar 9, 2015
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    Of course these only apply to hard drives, SSDs are much more resilient to shock :)
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 10, 2015
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    Does improper shutdown also causes bad sectors?
     
    amir786_z, Mar 10, 2015
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    Yes it can cause problems... However, sometimes you have no choice if your computer completely hangs etc so you do have to remove the power cable/battery etc and do such a shutdown!
     
    TomJGX, Mar 11, 2015
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    Modern drives should not crash the head into the platter on power loss but do try to avoid it. It's more likely to corrupt data than physically damage the drive.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 12, 2015
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    Thanks Tom and Meaker. I will keep that in mind.
     
    amir786_z, Mar 19, 2015
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    Well good luck and happy computing ;)
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 20, 2015
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