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Does a drive have to physically crash to render it unusable?

April 26, 2017crash drive physically render unusable

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Does a drive have to physically crash to render it unusable?

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No. If a bad sector develops on a critical portion of the drive, you may not be notified of a hard drive failure. However, some or all of the data on the drive may be unreadable. If a bad sector develops in a critical area used by a file that is required to load the operating system, the system would be inoperative.