u/BronzeBowelLiteracy

Hello, I don’t know much about tech and recently experienced some hard drive issues.

It is a P20, 3.2 gen phixero 2TB external hard drive that is only about one year old.

Trying to save files at school caused windows to freeze on two different workstations. Googled a command prompt (chkdsk /r /f), ran it, and found 16 bad sectors or 64kb worth of bad sectors. It says it also replaced some bad clusters.

Is there any fix or do I really need to drop another $150 for a new hard drive? I backed up my files but am bummed as I worked with a lot of important work from my hard drive. Haven’t tried writing to the drive after it froze my workstations yet.