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<div>In using the computer, I was not aware of any malfunctions. What I saw were:</div><div>* The message from the BIOS running POST</div><div>* When running Win7, it started popping up a window saying a drive was failing and that I should run a backup.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>The Seagate Tool did not run on the "bad" computer with Win7. On a newer machine with Win10, it identified and tested a Toshiba drive.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I went back to the Seagate website, but could not find a different (older) version. In the interest of science, I will try the USB version.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Going forward: Win 7 kept nagging me to back up. Well I have copied all of MY data files off the system. Now suppose I did a windows backup, what would it get me?</div><div><ul><li>If I replace the harddrive, can I use the backup to install windows 7?</li><li>What if I also replace the motherboard? Pretty sure that won't work.</li><li>So I replace hard drive and do a clean install of Debian, can I use the back up to run under a virtual drive?</li><li>In short, is there anything useful I can do with the backup?</li></ul><div>BTW, I do have the install CD, but not sure if I can re-use the serial number with new hardware. <br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Tuesday, November 20, 2018, 11:45:37 PM PST, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Paul Zander (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a>):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Reallocated SectorCount Value 3, Threshold 36, Worst 3<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> From the many other entries I think possibly this means there are only<br clear="none">> 3 spare sectors left to re-allocate.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">No. This is related to some hocus-pocus going on in the drive's<br clear="none">on-board electronics to swap in spare sectors. Quoting a small piece of<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://superuser.com/questions/384095/how-to-force-a-remap-of-sectors-reported-in-s-m-a-r-t-c5-current-pending-sector" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://superuser.com/questions/384095/how-to-force-a-remap-of-sectors-reported-in-s-m-a-r-t-c5-current-pending-sector</a><br clear="none">:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Most modern drives contain a number of "spare" sectors (e.g. 1,024<br clear="none"> spare sectors). If the drive recognizes a sector as bad, it will stop<br clear="none"> using it. Any requests to read or write to that damaged sector will<br clear="none"> transparently be redirected to a spare sector. This marking off of a bad<br clear="none"> sector, and reallocating its data to a spare sector, is called a<br clear="none"> Reallocation Event. And the total number of sectors that have been<br clear="none"> reallocated (and so how many of your spare sectors have been used up) is<br clear="none"> the Reallocated Sector Count.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">But, that aside, you say the drive failed [something]. OK, and maybe<br clear="none">the remapping of those three failing sectors to spare sectors, behind<br clear="none">the scenes, is part of a slow loss of sectors that's ongoing and will <br clear="none">eventually exhaust all spare sectors, after which you'd start actually<br clear="none">losing data living on failing sectors. You didn't say what 'failed'<br clear="none">meant, nor -- the important number -- how many spare sectors remain.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Just as a guess, not having the data you (apparently) saw, I suspect<br clear="none">what you want to do is this:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/203931en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/203931en</a><br clear="none">That might fix all current problems. (If not, the device can always<br clear="none">achieve its best and highest purpose as landfill.)<div class="ydp90a73669yiv6282332803ydp796ac92fyqt9638507136" id="ydp90a73669yiv6282332803ydp796ac92fyqtfd11386"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div></body></html>