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I respectfully disagree. Two partitions around it would work, but when a drive fails to reallocate failed sectors then the drive is often that far gone that you should not trust it anymore. In which case you copy all data off it and replace it with a new drive.
– Hennes
Commented Mar 9, 2014 at 15:07
I agree about the trust part but you can still use it as storage disk. If you don't use an OS on it, it's quite improbable to create further bads.
– TudoracheC
Commented Mar 9, 2014 at 15:16
the pending sectors count decreased from 80 to 40 after formatting that partition with Gparted, it didn't increase the rellocated sector count, so I assume those sectors weren't actually bad in the first place?
– user34853
Commented Mar 9, 2014 at 15:23
that must have been a software bad
– TudoracheC
Commented Mar 12, 2014 at 1:11

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