Is this HDD worth keeping?

SimonTW

SimonTW

SimonTW

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Hello,

I have an old 200GB Maxtor HDD that started failing many years ago (Windows stopped booting with it plugged in), but with a repartition using GParted I've managed to get it working in Windows again. I ran an error scan using HDTune which gave the following result:

HDTune.JPG


As you can see there are quite a few damaged sectors. Am I right in thinking that this is the beginning of the end and it won't last much longer? I guess at this stage it is impossible to predict how long it might last and therefore storing any important data on it would be a mistake?

It's been sitting in my cupboard for years, and I pretty much wrote it off when it first started failing so I have always assumed it was destined for the bin (after being wiped/destroyed).

Thanks,

Simon
 
Hi guys, i have a similiar problem with one of my HDDs which i just use for some games etc. However upon boot up i think its the culprit for making this grinding noise of which after 5-10minutes seems to go silent.
Here's a screeny of its current state, worth getting rid of


Screeny of Crystaldisk info
http://gyazo.com/fd51c8f7ea7b0d564c39984779ea1ddb
 
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Thanks for the advice guys. I thought I'd try wiping it with DBAN before getting rid of it, but it doesn't appear to have run fully. I left it running and have come back to the message "DBAN finished with non-fatal errors.", along with some more information. I'm guessing this happened because of the damaged sectors? If so I'll forget about wiping it and just take the sledgehammer to it (which I'd probably do anyway just for fun!).
 
Sledge it, good therapy! :)

It's less than a tenner's worth of storage space anyway, and likely to be a very slow drive by today's standards...plus it's a Maxstor, gonna fail eventually!
 
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