Hardware

VR

Headset keeps dropping in and out

Plug headset into USB 3.0
Bases up high, facing each other, diagonal

Storage

Diagnosing a HDD failure as having bad sectors

Symptoms

Programs using that HDD will fuck up out of the blue while you're using them
Might log you out
System may fail to start a few times
Eventually it will let you start it, but it might take a while and the HDD might make scratching noises.

Steps

Do a full backup of the drive using CloneZilla
- Make sure you pick the "Expert" option and specify --rescue in the options. (This will ignore bad blocks)
I'm pretty sure you shouldn't do the following steps if you're rescuing an SSD.
On a Linux live CD or another Linux machine, run
Windows/NTFS partitions: chkdsk
Linux/ext partitions:
- sudo badblocks -v /dev/sdXY > badsectors.txt to get a list of bad sectors
- sudo e2fsck -l badsectors.txt /dev/sdXY to fix/remap those sectors from that list generated in the previous step
  - Replace e2fsck with fsck for non ext* formats
- Source: https://www.tecmint.com/check-linux-hard-disk-bad-sectors-bad-blocks/
  - This is kind of an old method and I think there's a better way with smartmontools (smartctl)