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Bad Block: failing drive, or "meh" ??
Toshiba laptop went down. can't boot. ran usual diags, windows 8.1 unable to boot anything on the drive as is.
hooked to a good system: assigned drive letter, windows disk manager shows all partitions "healthy", but windows cannot access the partition [the main partition on the troubled drive] at all.
system error logs show loads of errors on "drive d" [or drive 1 as it calls it].
Toshiba's own tool shows it passing short test, passing quick test, no SMART warnings [all green].
my question: toss it?
this is a typical Toshiba laptop drive from a Toshiba satellite.
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