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The forum discussion centers on concerns about a 10-year-old Toshiba HDD showing disk read errors after shrinking the Windows 10 partition. The original poster ran chkdsk /r, but is unsure if the disk has significant issues, and questions if the drive is still usable with Windows 10. Participants suggest running diagnostic tools like SeaTools to assess the drive's health, acknowledge that some failing sectors are normal in old drives, but advise replacing the HDD if failures increase, expressing frustration over the drive being unused yet problematic.
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anotherwindowsuser

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Hi,

I shrank the windows 10 partition on my laptop which was using a new as in unused, but 10 year old hdd, it showed these errors, quite a lot, saying "Failed to rad disk, error 2453 LBA6495272

The software I used was called MiniTool Partition Wizard

Is this a dud disk then? windows 10 finds no errors on normal checks but I haven't run the chkdsk program for read/write errors.
 

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bochane
You are right.
With an increasing number of failing sectors I would replace it right away. Seatools is always a good starting point to getting an idea of overall condition of old harddisks.
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anotherwindowsuser

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I ran the chkdsk /r command it took 1.5 hours and althoguh it reffered to itself as fixing, I dont know if it actually found errors or not as there was no official report?
 

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Run the seatools as provided by seagate, that is the best test.
 

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Do you think it would still run on windows ten is says for compatibility:


  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7 32- and 64-Bit
  • Windows Vista 32- and 64-Bit
  • Windows XP
 

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Failing sectors on a HDD is fairly normal. Chkdsk should be able to identify them, relocate data and mark them as bad.
 

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You are right.
With an increasing number of failing sectors I would replace it right away. Seatools is always a good starting point to getting an idea of overall condition of old harddisks.
 

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