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Repair more than 3500 bad blocks in 160 Gb samsung HDD using Ubuntu 12.04

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Recently I detected more than 3500 bad sectors on my Samsung 160 Gb HDD. Is it possible to repair or ignore this amount of bad sectors using Ubuntu 12.04?

What is the maximum number of bad sectors a disk can have and still be repairable?

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answered 1 Year ago fectlyole · Accepted Answer

Make a backup of your data NOW and source a replacement disk. 3500 bad blocks is excessive and no block mapping is going to result in a stable working disk for very long. That many bad blocks is a sign of impending hardware failure.