Fixing bad sectors. Well if the sector is bad due to a permanent harware failure, there is only one way to fix such a sector... making it inaccessible. Usually the sector will be treated like a no-go zone then. A bad sector that is never used isn't so bad right?
However, I'ld rather buy a new hdd, instead of waiting for the next error on the drive (and wasting my time with fixing these errors). I did this once with one of my Maxtor drives. This drive went from bad to worse, I gave up when I could not write to the drive anymore.
howto: event viewer
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...08427&x=7&y=18