flipper wrote:

That depends on how old his hard drive is and which version of
'S.M.A.R.T.' it implements. In particular, whether it supports idle
scanning of sectors.

If the error is in a sector that hasn't been used it wouldn't cause a
problem though. I know SMART isn't perfect, but chances are it will detect
a bad sector, and chances are an OS crash wasn't caused by a bad sector.


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