My hard drive was working perfectly and it just died all of a sudden. What happened?
Top No hard drive ever works perfectly. Even a brand new hard drive in the factory will have multiple errors and bad sectors all day long. This is why when you purchase a 400GB drive it only has 382 gigs to store data onto. This is the manufacturers way of hiding all the bad errors that are already on your drive. Furthermore, hard drives will automatically try to fix the errors occurring every time you use them with a code called ECC or Error Correction Code. Once the drive is unable to fix a bad sector it will mark that sector as unusable. If the drive develops too many bad sectors it will eventually die.
