On 2/21/2017 6:02 AM, Ant wrote:
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage nospam wrote:
In article , Ant
wrote:
Does anyone know of a free program that can check for bad sectors in
Macs (e.g., MacBook Pro from early 2008 [4,1]) without losing datas?
none that can do so reliably, on any platform.
based on you other posts, that drive has issues. toss it and install an
ssd. it'll breathe a little life in that aging macbook.
Yeah. 
You should replace it before it completely fails, and you can't recover
anything from it.