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It may work for many more months or may crash suddenly. Bad sectors alone need not be a big alarm. Back up your important data regularly so that when it crashes (eventually all hard disks crash!), you are not caught unprepared.

2007-07-04 22:27:04 · answer #1 · answered by Swamy 7 · 3 0

It could be a couple of months, depending on how heavy you use your computer. What will happen, is your computer will just not use the bad sectors and write around it, which will slow everything down (because your drive is fragmented). Defrag will not help much and will take a long time to get through - if your computer even lets it run properly. I've had a few hard drives over the years do the same thing. I'd back my stuff up as quick as possible and get a new hard drive.

2007-07-05 05:32:39 · answer #2 · answered by Blip B 3 · 1 0

that is like saying how long is a piece of string, If you have any indication that your HDD is about to go then I would suggest backing up the stuff you really don't want to loose, indications that your HDD is about to go are if its noisey, if it blue screens alot etc.

Bad sectors on a HDD does not necessarily mean that the HDD will die, It is quite normal to have some bad sectors especially on such a bigg hdd. It only becomes a problem when the bad secotrs affect parts of the disk that contain system files that it may crash.

This is why you should really have your HDD partitioned so that one partition has the OS and program files and the other has your data files (music, etc) then if the system crashes you can rebuild just the part of the drive that has the OS and your files you wan to keep will still be there.

2007-07-05 05:31:01 · answer #3 · answered by maplesyrup_boy 3 · 3 0

This is one of those questions that at best will get an educated guess as an answer. No one can tell how long your hard drive will continue to function. I would suggest that if your data is valuable to you that you get a new drive as soon as possible, if on the other hand there is nothing on the drive you are worried about run it until it fails completely. The choice is as always yours.

2007-07-05 05:31:35 · answer #4 · answered by Colin H 5 · 1 0

Depends on how bad the sectors are, if they are really badly damaged i wouldn't wait around for it to pack up alltogether get it backed up now and do yourself a favour. Buy a new drive otherwise you may live to regret it.

2007-07-08 20:41:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

In my experience, once a hard disk gets a few bad sectors it will rapidly become un-useable in a matter of days. This may not happen in your case but I would reccomend you backup anything important now while its still functioning.

2007-07-05 05:27:50 · answer #6 · answered by Mike 5 · 1 0

It would be better for you to change your hd.

Also make a backup. Coz if your drive suddenly crashes before you change it, it would be difficult to restore you data.
Then my hd crashed I lost all my data(photos, musik, docs), I was so upset. So I bought a backup software (True Image) and don't think about loosing my favourite music.

2007-07-05 07:03:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

It really depends, but recently with computer parts becoming extremely commodified, they seem to tend to die very quickly once there are a couple of bad sectors. (just personal experience, nothing scientific). it could also depends on usage patterns.

2007-07-05 05:39:45 · answer #8 · answered by dullneon 1 · 1 0

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