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Screwyy laptop HDD..

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imported_goku

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Ok I wrote in a few threads about how my sister fubared her laptop by installing printer drivers and how she sent her system to me, well it seems that maybe it's the HDD thats fubared and not a software issue. I took her laptop out and put it into an external USB enclosure and when I access the files, it's kinda wierd, I get bursts of data instead of a continuous stream of data being copied off.

I ran WinDLG (WDC data life guard diagnostics on this hitachi drive) and it says it can't reports the SMART info and I'm wondering if it's even possible to access SMART info through an external enclosure. Is it? When I ran the quick scan on the drive, it found a few bad sectors and I told it to "fix" it. I'm not really sure what to do...
 
Hooked up my drive in a different way and it turns out it DOES have SMART. The smart info says that it "passed" but on the Reallocated Sector Count, it says the Value is 1 and the Threshold is 5 (which is bad) and has an X by it (I'm using WDC Data lifeguard Diagnostics). Which would explain why some files are unable to be read. So I'm wondering "is the drive failing"? Shes says she dropped the laptop a month ago so I'm thinking the drive head just damaged the platters and thats it but I dunno.
 
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