Paul wrote:

If you wanted to map the bad spots on the drive, you could try
this package.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Damaged_Hard_Disk

"The best method: Antonio Diaz's GNU 'ddrescue'

Is there a program to use ddrescue log (loged bad sectors) to mark NTFS
bad sectors?

Checking the IDE disks I can see for sale today, as a replacement for
the bad drive, my supplier has

WD1600AAJB 160GB 7200RPM 8MB Buffer $ 81.71

Is that a retail one (boxed)? And in US Dollars?
At my place, an OEM SATA3 WD Green 500GB costs $81 USD.
And an OEM IDE WD 160GB costs $48 USD.