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WD disk errors, boot issues and possible bad blocks
Dell Inspiron 15R
Win 10 v.1909
Western Digital Scorpio 300 GB (WDC WD3200BEVT-75ZCT2)
Hi
My hard drive appears to be having a few issues recently. Mainly, my laptop doesn't boot from sleep cleanly - it starts up with no screen visibility and auto restart mid-boot. It eventually starts but only after going through self-diagnostics and my manually selecting 'Cancel & Boot Windows 10 normally' (or words to that effect).
Also, I've checked the Event Viewer and found entries almost daily saying 'Event ID 7 : The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.'
Ive run a Western Digital Data Lifeguard full test (1.5 hrs) and it returned errors which it cannot fix (FAIL).
I've also run the Win 10 CHKDSK program but it found no errors.
Ive now resorted to disabling Sleep Mode completely and shutting the system down whenever Im finished using it, but would really like to fix these issues if possible.
Can anyone please offer any advice.
Many thanks in advance.