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    Trying to save a dying hard drive

    In Crystaldiskinfo "Current Pending Sector Count" shows up as a problem. Doesn't that just mean there are bad sectors that need to be remapped? Isn't chkdsk supposed to do that?
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    Trying to save a dying hard drive

    I have a Western Digital internal hard drive (WD2002FAEX) on a Windows 8.1 64-bit system that seems to be dying, and I want to see if there's anything I can do to fix it before I just throw it away. It's out of warranty, so I can't return it to the manufacturer. The problem is that files on the...
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    Installing Windows 8 over pre-installed Windows 10

    Yes, at some point in the future I'm sure Windows 10 will be fine, but for now I've been told I need to be running 8.
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    Installing Windows 8 over pre-installed Windows 10

    I'm buying a new laptop, but it has to have Windows 8 on it. Can I just buy a system with Windows 10 pre-installed, buy a System Builder OEM copy of Windows 8 from Amazon, and then wipe the hard drive and install Windows 8 from scratch? I know most systems that come pre-installed with Windows 10...
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