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  • As an SSD, there are no spare sectors to remap into. That is why the drive's SMART continues to note a Pending Sector Count of zero, and a Reallocated Sector Count of zero.
    – Ian Boyd
    Commented Dec 26, 2013 at 19:03
  • Katy Coe has an excellent blog that starts to delve into the guts of NTFS. But my eyes glazed over when i had to start calculating offsets, logical cluster numbers, virtual cluster numbers, and the fact that $BadClus is a spare file that is actually the size of the entire volume. i'd almost certainly destroy my (functioning) drive.
    – Ian Boyd
    Commented Dec 26, 2013 at 19:07
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    Actually an SSD has tons of spare sectors. In fact a 120gb ssd probably has up to 8gb of spare sectors. Why your drive didn't remap it automatically is unknown to me. Use gparted and shrink the partition.
    – cybernard
    Commented Dec 26, 2013 at 19:07
  • It very well might be that this is an old, now discontinued, now unsupported, 64 GB Kingston drive. Or maybe it's just a bug in the drive's firmware where they forgot to implement sector remapping.
    – Ian Boyd
    Commented Dec 26, 2013 at 19:12
  • Also, drive cloning fails when they encounter the bad sector (at least DriveImageXML did).
    – Ian Boyd
    Commented Dec 26, 2013 at 23:45