So I have this external 2.5" drive salvaged from an old laptop of mine. I was trying to use it to backup/store data but the transfer to the drive fails repeatedly at the ~290GB mark leading me to believe that maybe there is a bad sector on the drive. I tried to inspect the drive using smartmontools and smartctl but since it is an external drive, i was not allowed to do so. Is there anyway for me to inspect and fix this drive? I am on fedora ublue-main. The HDD is a 1TB seagate drive.
You can’t fix a bad drive. Well you can, but it requires a few million dollars
I would get a new drive. I’m sorry but it is a lost cause. I would recommend taking it apart before you throw it away as it looks pretty cool inside.