My computer running windows 10 wouldn't boot. It just stopped one-third of the way thru booting. Had my computer guy diagnose problem. He said there were bad sectors in the boot disk area. I put in a new hard drive and installed windows 10. Kept the old disk as slave. Everything works fine. My question: can the bad sectors be repaired? Any other solution to this problem?
Solved Bad Sectors in boot disk
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It is possible to mark bad sectors so Windows doesn't use them, but how many more are about to occur is the question. For the cost of a new drive these days you prolly did the right thing replacing it. You could just reformat the old one and it and use it as an external drive for NON IMPORTANT data. You can buy an enclosure, or even a usb caddy, or simply cables to connect it if you want. Do remember you've had a warning with it so don't put any critical data on it as a single source.
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