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What do I do if there are bad blocks on my hard drive?
For IDE drives:
If there are bad blocks on the drive, this usually an indication that the drive it going bad. Now a day, all IDE drives come with internal bad block remapping turned on. Check with the manufacturer of the hard drive for [...]

How To Repair Bad Blocks on a Hard Drive?
You can use the ‘CHKDSK’ command
Checks a disk and displays a status report.
CHKDSK [volume[[path]filename]]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:size]]
volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),
mount point, or volume name.
filename [...]