My computer first blue screened a couple weeks ago.
It blue screened the other day. All memory was fine both times.
But I fear it will do it again. I updated the BIOS and the computer was working fine since yesterday.
I brought it to the school computer repair center and they ran some sort of hard drive scan. It almost passed, but at the last second, it displayed an error message saying "BAD SECTORS".
The guy told me I could lose data but he's not really sure how much. I could repair it using the tool. My understanding is that the computer renders those parts of the hard drive useless so no data is stored (But your hard drive space is reduced)
I am afraid of losing alot of data (I have my school files backed up… But I don't want to lose my programs).
I have a 1TB seagate external hard drive and can backup all files it seems (~50GB). But it will take days and I'm not sure if when i reload it to my computer the program files will be whole or in pieces. (It uses Instant Backup) I only selected to backup certain files since backing up the whole thing.
I have some time here. I can not repair the bad sectors and hope it runs fine. I need to do work for school using software. I can also wait a couple days and backup All files to my external hard drive.
Or i can do the repair now and hope it doesn't delete data.
What are your recommendations?
Update: By the way.
Lenovo T430
Intel core i5 vpro processor
Windows 7 64 bit
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