Can the hard drive be removed?

Question

laptops

Hello. My laptop's HDD failed and I replaced it with an SSD. And put the HDD instead of the drive. I have sector bits on the HDD and no data is stored on it at all. Is it possible to remove it from the laptop at all?

Answer 1

Can.
Why put it at all if you don't use it. Maybe for file cleaning, some data that is not a pity to work

Answer 2

Is it possible to remove it from the laptop at all?

Not possible, but necessary.
Modern HDDs cannot have bad blocks. There is a special reserve area that replaces bad sectors automatically. The appearance of bad blocks indicates that the reserve area is filled to the limit and you have about 20% of the disk already dead and in the near future it will move its hooves.
In addition, the replaced blocks are far away and it takes time to get to them, a lot of blocks a lot of time. In short, such a disk slows down terribly.