[Discuss] unreadable sector

Richard Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 14:32:50 EDT 2013


Tom Metro wrote:
> Definitely quicker, but if you can live without the drive for a bit,
> better to do a full write test on the drive, because Ed might be right,
> and it could be an expanding problem.

I'm with Ed. Any problem that isn't automatically corrected by a disk's 
on-board controller is terminal. Don't waste time, and don't risk your 
data: replace the disk ASAP.

-- 
Rich P.



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