My husband's hdd (which turned out to be a partition of a hdd) showed signs of having issues, which I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) were hardware related. I problems were such that I was about to bin the hdd and buy a new one. To summarize, his incredibly slow pc issues (including an access time of over 15 minutes to just see the contents of that partition), were resolved after a format (which took a full day, because doing anything on that partition was EXCEEDINGLY SLOW and a lengthy process) and disk repair of that partition, though it lost 50% of its capacity in the process. The problems were resolved afterwards. I was under the impression that his pc had 2-3 HDDS, and that this faulty drive was one entire HDD, and not a partition of one. I was wrong, as today, as I was de-dusting his pc, I found that he has only 1 single HDD, which then has been partitioned. All the other partitions are working just fine. His Windows is installed on an SSD.
So now I'm confused, hence the question. Can a faulty harddisk's problems be limited to only one partition of that harddisk?
So now I'm confused, hence the question. Can a faulty harddisk's problems be limited to only one partition of that harddisk?
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