Bought a hard drive online and when it was shipped today it looked like the pic. Not sure if this was safe to install or not.
Is this ok to install?
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I haven't ran any test on it yet. I'm waiting for the RAM I ordered to get here before I done any test. The date on it is Dec. 2005.
I don't think I would put any valuable info on it.If your just using it for an old OS that would be ok.
It's an old desktop. Bought it in 2002. Just something my 10 year old can mess around with. I just upgraded my main desktop from Vista to 7 so I have a Vista disk just laying around.
Look for a program called HDAT2. You can either download it direct and install it on a flash drive or find it on either Ultimate Boot CD or Hiren's Boot CD. HDAT2 will do a hard-scan of the sectors and remap any bad ones it finds. You'll have a visual representation of the drive's mapping which will show unused sectors, used sectors, bad sectors, and remapped sectors. Depending on the size of the hard disk, expect scan times of a couple of hours to a day or more. I use it primarily to get non-bootable systems with failing drives to boot again temporarily. It actually re-maps and rebuilds lost data. After that I can mirror the defective drive and replace with a new one.
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