As mentioned in one of my more recent posts, I had a system failure that corrupted a couple of my .veg and related media files that I've only partially restored and some of it may be gone forever. All my .veg and other large media projects are on off-OS drives, mainly D:\.
I did chksk and everything under the sun to shore up that drive but obviously something is damaged for every time I launch Acronis True Image which scans all drives before one goes into choosing what drive to backup or restore, it always finds the above read error -- it seems to be the only one. Which is on that D:\ drive.
As one of my most recent posts reflects, I'm going to get a newer and larger one to replace that drive (3TB), but I still want to be able to use this one as a a backup-storage drive.
Q-1: Is this sector corruption indication of a drive going downhill or just essentially one tiny part of the drive that can't be used anymore?
Q-2: If so, once I turn it into a back-up drive, would it simply be ignored and not used -- or possibly screw up that sector of backup?