Hey everyone, I had recently purchased a 320GB Western Digital hard drive from my local Goodwill, and I had also bought 4 Gigs RAM and a Dell Optiplex 3010 for a grand total of 34 dollars! Yay! I had installed Windows and had not run any tests on the hard drive considering it was from Goodwill, I should have, but I didn't. So install went smooth, and so did driver install and Windows update to SP1. I called it a day after everything was installed. I then woke up and wanted to play some Civilization 3 on the desktop, but I just kept getting a black screen every time I tried to turn on the computer.
Long story short, the program WD lifeguard diagnosed the drive with some filesystem errors at around 160 GB and some before that. I was pretty disappointed because I don't have very many 3.5" drives. So I pulled out a Neodymium HDD magnet and turned the drive on and let in spin with the magnets stuck on top and the bottom. After about two minutes of it spinning, and a Full Format in WD data lifeguard, I conducted two extended tests on the hard drive, and they all came back clear, and I also tested it with PassMark, and it came back fine.
So my question is, how did this end up working and should this drive be trusted?