What causes bad sector HD damage?

DaSilva

My laptop Hard Drive gave in recently. Several of the first clusters (or sectors, i forget which word) are damaged. Im wondering how does this damage occur?

EOA_Mushy

Where is the fan located?

or

How many times have you droped it?

or

How old is it?

Ruu_Old

A couple of factors are involved I believe. If the drive is not getting enough cooling, normal aging factor, dropping it a few times probably won't do much good for it either.

EOA_Mushy

Ruu wrote:

A couple of factors are involved I believe. If the drive is not getting enough cooling, normal aging factor, dropping it a few times probably won't do much good for it either.

Im glad you agree Ruu. :rolleyes:

DaSilva

Drive is 2 years old.
Laptop never dropped, infact rarely moved.
Laptop is used intensively so heat is a problem, but for that exact reason Fan is allways running on highest speed, and got a cooler pad for underneath

EOA_Mushy

Good chance its age so...

Well since you took the precausion of cooling I assume you wouldnt leave it near a speaker (would need to relitvly big)

Ruu_Old

EOA_Mushy wrote:

Im glad you agree Ruu. :rolleyes:

Yes I copied you obviously, our posts are 3 minutes..*ahem* apart. You win, hurray!

OP, I normally have mine raised up on a book or whatever to make sure its getting the airflow it needs. If the fan is always running at the highest speed all the time then it seems to me like its not doing what it should be (like my old shoddy Dell rarely runs at the highest speed).

EOA_Mushy

Ah... My appoligies.

DaSilva

EOA_Mushy wrote:

Good chance its age so...

Well since you took the precausion of cooling I assume you wouldnt leave it near a speaker (would need to relitvly big)

Not near any speakers at all

And really for a Hard Drive, I think 2 years is fairly young

Ruu wrote:

OP, I normally have mine raised up on a book or whatever to make sure its getting the airflow it needs. If the fan is always running at the highest speed all the time then it seems to me like its not doing what it should be (like my old shoddy Dell rarely runs at the highest speed).

I used to use some kids bricks to get airflow underneath, but then I went out and bought this which by the way doesnt really do much more than the bricks did, how and ever.

I had a program to control the fan speed, so when I would be doing something CPU intensive I would make the fan stay at its highest speed.

Anti

Ruu wrote:

Yes I copied you obviously, our posts are 3 seconds apart. You win, hurray!

OP, I normally have mine raised up on a book or whatever to make sure its getting the airflow it needs. If the fan is always running at the highest speed all the time then it seems to me like its not doing what it should be (like my old shoddy Dell rarely runs at the highest speed).

3 seconds, More like 3 minuets .....


Ruu is deffinatly broken...