When scanning a drive with Western Digital Life Guard or any hard drive manufacturer’s diagnostic tools often I will get the message “Bad sectors have been found and repaired”
Generally when I find bad sectors on a drive I deam it 'faulty" or “bad” and issue the customer a replacement.
Upon further reading ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_sectors)) it appears “bad sectors” cannot actually be “repaired” but only rerouted to “good sectors”
Here’s my question - are these drives actually being “repaired” or are they failing drives that we just bypassed the problem with temporarily by using a “good” sector?
