HDD Bad sectors - Did my project fail?

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Published on October 20, 2023 1:17:05 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16FovysE56Y

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Hard drives from the 20th century may no longer be in their best working condition. I was planning to work on a different project, when the main protagonist of the story decided to change the plot...
Let's figure out if the hard drive in question could still be used for the project I initially wanted to work on.

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00:00 Intro
00:39 Seagate ST-157A specs
00:56 How I come up with video topics
01:31 Why the old hard drive
03:28 State of my hard drives
04:53 ST-157A and Scandisk
07:33 Other disk utilities
08:02 PowerQuest Partition Magic
09:00 Verify with Scandisk
10:32 How much space was lost?
11:15 Conclusion