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Your reply is very much appreciated Bree! This problem is something that has given me so much extra stress on top of all the life stressors I'm dealing with at the moment!
As you say "these are sectors that the drive has detected as damaged and has successfully replaced them with spares from a pool of extra sectors set aside for this purpose", so does this mean that the HDD will be using sectors that are located on the HDD and are currently "free space"???
This is why I thought deleting large files would extend this HDD's time before it dies completely and give me extra time to finish the backups.