Quote Originally Posted by Wazz View Post
All Hard Disks contain a certain number of "Bad Sectors", that is just the reality of it. I always do a thorough chkdsk before introducing a new drive to any environment. If you're that worried about it, throw Spinrite at it and flip the bit on said Bad Sectors....
Modern hard disks have a 'spare' bit of room to map bad sectors to. If bad sectors start showing up it means that spare room is full and the drive needs to be replaced.