I had a hard drive that was going bad awhile back. The scans would report bad sectors, which it would supposedly fix, but I didn't trust it for anything important. But I did keep it around for occasional short-term backups.
One time, I had popped it into the case (didn't have an external enclosure at the time), started copying some stuff onto it, when I saw a flash from inside the case, and smelled a burning smell. The computer also locked up. I quickly turned the thing off, pulled the other drive out, and hoped that it didn't kill anything else in the machine. Luckily, once I pulled the bad drive it, and came up just fine.
One time, I had popped it into the case (didn't have an external enclosure at the time), started copying some stuff onto it, when I saw a flash from inside the case, and smelled a burning smell. The computer also locked up. I quickly turned the thing off, pulled the other drive out, and hoped that it didn't kill anything else in the machine. Luckily, once I pulled the bad drive it, and came up just fine.
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