Comment 65 for bug 438136

I am SO glad I found this page. I just updated my husband's laptop (I am more technically oriented than he is, or just have more patience) which was refurbished when we got it, and had literally nothing on it. It has worked very well with NO problems since we got it. Suddenly, I upgrade Linux and there's this big red scary "Your HDD has 720965 bad sectors and you have to replace it NOW" warning. Oddly every other test result on the SMART Data utility has a result of "Good."

Of course I freaked... and then googled it. I feel I can safely disregard this, since there has never been any indication that the computer is irretrievably riddled with bad sectors.