Event ID 7, The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block

This 2016 article by snorble is so helpful about how to decode that message that I want to create a permanent link to it:

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1950013-event-id-7-the-device-device-harddisk1-dr1-has-a-bad-block

It’s based on Microsoft KB159865, “How to Distinguish a Physical Disk Device from an Event Message,” no longer available from Microsoft (is it no longer accurate?), but available at the KB archive here:

https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_KB_Archive/159865

or from the Wayback Machine e.g. on 3/20/2014:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140320204700/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159865

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