Excuse me guys.

I have been forced to change my notebook hdd months ago due to the hdd failed to boot up. Since I'm reinstalling OS in another laptop , i have the time to try the Failed HDD as a external drive via USB.

It able to detect the Recover partition , but not the main C: drive. After awhile , it shows the C: drive , but i'm unable to click into the folder. It'll just hang there.

Could it be due to bad sector ? Is there any ways to repair it ?

Hope you guys could lend a helping hand.
Thank you!

Just bought Samsung F3 1TB

I'm planning to use the drive to replace my system drive which currently Seagate 7200.11 500GB. Well, it been giving me problem like slow access and slow bootup, so better be wise with it now

Any recommendation for the partitioning? Perhaps if you guys don't mind to share out your current partitioning?

I'm thinking of splitting 100GB or 150GB for OS and software while the rest available as one partition solely for storage. Some recommended sparing either 10, 15 or 20GB alone for the OS, another partition for the software and finally the rest for the storage. But when we actually reformatted the OS, high possibility that we will need to reinstall the software since the registry entries or system files will be removed, why would we divide them into different partition? Performance wise perhaps?

Thanks in advance for anyone that sharing