Take the 2-minute tour ×  My hard disk has become very slow.
(for ex. Listening music or watching movies which are stored on
the hard disk is nearly impossible because they keep getting
stuck for seconds before continuing, this doesn't happen when
doing the same for things stored on my pen drive etc.)  I ran
Disk Utility and viewed SMART data and it showed that my hard
disk has 282 bad sectors (Reallocated Sector Count).  What is
the best way to replace my hard disk if I don't want to go
through the pain of installing all my software again? (I have a
Win7/Ubuntu dual boot laptop with a 320 GB hard disk)
share|improve this question I read the title and I thought you
wanted to replace your hard disk with bad sectors lol –  Mehrdad
Dec 4 '11 at 8:31 Could be a duplicate of
superuser.com/questions/32164/… –  Cees Timmerman Dec 14 '13 at
16:57 add comment  migrated from serverfault.com Dec 4 '11 at
8:03   4 Answers  up vote 4 down vote accepted  there are two
special - more 'stubborn' - versions of dd that come h