are bad clusters permanent?

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my gf's laptop has some, running chkdsk now and it seems to be sorting it out, she had been complaining that it was running slow and eventvwr showed loads of hd errors, so i figured chkdsk would be a good idea

its showing that the drive has a few bad clusters, are these the same as bad sectors? or are they different.. -are they a filesystem problem? or a hardware problem with the drive

the laptop is still under warranty and all of her data is safely backed up

should i try fixing it or save my time and send it back to the manuf
 
well

Western Digital Hard drive tools found the problem under quick scan, and the extensive scan fixed it!

working fine now, and as a test, i used hddlifepro (demo) before and after to see if it made a difference, before it was on 40% in yellow, now its 80% in green :)
 
This means the drive has remapped the bad sectors to good ones from it's pool of spares, which may be OK. However, I'd still keep a close eye on that drive for a while, just in case. If it develops more bad sectors soon, the drive might be on the slippery slope of hdd decline. Needless to say, backups of important data are not optional.
 
I have a 1996 WD caviar HD, 3.1Gb which had a few bad clusters, it fixed them years ago and the drive still trundles along. But keep an eye on it.

Off topic but it was £340 quid new, scary, slow as well.
 
its still got 2 years left warranty, so ill just make sure it breaks when it comes closer to the 2 years :)

seems to work fine now, have done loads of tests on it and all say its fine now

its only about 10mb of important stuff, and i back that up for her over hamachi
 
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