Can anyone around here tell me if this HDD is failed or not? I already bought a new one and installed windows to it since the one in test failed to boot windows and I was never able to fix it.
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I've already answered this in your previous question. [HDD is seen in BIOS and seen as storage device but never able to boot windows](https://superuser.com/q/1124431) – DavidPostill Sep 16 '16 at 10:54
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Sorry for duplication. My bad @DavidPostill – Ahmed Magdy Sep 16 '16 at 11:39
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Simply put, yes it's failing. Back up any data off this disk immediately
It's started reallocating sectors because they've failed to write - a hard drive has a reserved amount of sectors that it can write to, in case the original write fails.
However you'd not expect this to normally stop a disk booting right away, unless you've also lost some data which is required by the boot process
This question discusses nicely if you can 'trust' a drive that's started re-allocating. I'd personally remove all data off it and trust it only with throw away data that I have stored else where (maybe for carrying some movies around to a friends house or something) but nothing important.
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1Yeah I guess I will keep it for archival purposes for stuff that I already have backed up elsewhere. Thanks alot. – Ahmed Magdy Sep 16 '16 at 08:30
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1Keep it for things like movies,media, etc. stuff that won't break if a block of the file is failed. An archive will CRC-fail if a HDD block is bad. – Overmind Sep 16 '16 at 09:14
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Guess I will just secure erase it and sell it. Some stores here buy these old drives. Will the diskpart clean all command erase everything and make it unrecoverable? – Ahmed Magdy Sep 16 '16 at 11:45