I recently booted up my PC and saw a "Fixing (D:) Stage 1" message that lasted a few minutes. After that, I ran a scan with DiskGenius and found 4 bad sectors on my 1TB hard drive. The drive is making its usual mechanical sounds, and I know what bad noises sound like because I've had a bad second-hand HDD before. I mainly use this HDD for documents, pictures, and videos, and have a few rarely-used Adobe apps on it. I'm concerned about how urgent this issue is and thinking about transferring everything to a new SSD. How long can I expect the HDD to last, and is moving my data the right move?
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Bad sectors can grow over time, but you could still use the HDD for now. Just remember to avoid keeping anything critical on it without a backup.
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