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Bad hard drive?

leSLIe

leSLIe

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I want to install Untangle (An "automated" Linux distro for web control) in an old PC that I have laying around.
Upon checking the hard drive (SATA 160GB) using Acronis Disk Director 11 Home
I've notice that it has some bad sectors, so I clicked on "Try to fix found bad sectors".

Finally I run HD Tune Pro, and found the following:

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Is the hard drive good enough to install this software?
 
I would not use that drive on any data that I care about. Although since you mention linux run a 4 pass badblocks test and use it only if there are no verify errors.

Code: 
badblocks -wsv /dev/device

Where device will most likely be sda on a system with no other drives and a modern linux release. Check first with fdisk and/or smartctl

fdisk -l /dev/sd?

smartctl --all /dev/sda
 
Ok, I currently don't have a installed distro or LiveCD at hand. Is there a tool to do that in windows?
 
I'm not gonna lie,

I would forego the hard drive alltogether and run this off a 8GB USB.
 
There should not be a big difference from installing onto a usb stick or a hard disk in a modern linux.
 
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