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bad sectors ?

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will formatting correct bad sectors or will i need a new harddrive?
 
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I have a hard drive with bad sectors. It doesn't boot, because some of the windows installation files were lost- but I'd imagine if I formatted it, it might work. The bad sectors would not be repaired, but they would be skipped over and left unused.
 
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