On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:57:25 +0000 (UTC), JJ
wrote:

John Corliss wrote:

Is there any way to get around this and simply block the bad sectors?

The bad sectors are probably too severe for the system to read/write. It
usually take a number of retries before finally decides whether it's
acessible (good) or inaccessible (bad).

The OP mentioned BSOD's when attempting to format this partition. How
common is that?

I do computer repair as a side business and have seen a lot of failed
and failing hard drives, but I don't remember off hand if I've ever
seen BSOD's in conjunction with a bad drive. Is that fairly common, at
least outside of my circles?