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Until you've done a complete CHKDSK, don't say the hard disk is bad. The drive very well could be bad, but most likely, it's the Windows install that's bad.
If you don't have time to do a CHKDSK, then I'd simply change the HD's status from "Bad" to "not guaranteed" and/or needs new OS.
If you don't have time to do a CHKDSK, then I'd simply change the HD's status from "Bad" to "not guaranteed" and/or needs new OS.
Latitude E7250: i5 5300U 2.3ghz, 12gb RAM, 12" 1080p touch, 256gb SSD, Win 10, Linux Mint 18.2
HP Compaq 6910p: 2GHZ C2D T6400, 4gb RAM, 14.1" WXGA, 500gb WD Blue, Linux Mint 18.2
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That is the third hard drive I have put into the laptop and if you look at the pics one of them is of a check disk running
AlphaKilo470 wrote:Until you've done a complete CHKDSK, don't say the hard disk is bad. The drive very well could be bad, but most likely, it's the Windows install that's bad.
If you don't have time to do a CHKDSK, then I'd simply change the HD's status from "Bad" to "not guaranteed" and/or needs new OS.
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