Installing around bad sectors

[MR ZenWiz]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So a part of my hard disk is basically toast. I don't thin it's a huge
> area but at least some of it is. Right now, my local computer store is
> telling me it will be 4-5 days before they can get a new one so I'm
> thinking about reinstalling and working around the bad areas.
>
> Is there a way to do this? If I reinstall Ubuntu, can I tell it to route
> around the bad sectors and not access them once the machine is in use? I
> think the boot sector is bad.
>
If part of your disk went bad, chances are it is on its way to total
failure.  You're asking for a lot of trouble if you continue to use
it.

As a temporary workaround, you might not hurt too much, in which case
the advice given by others here already is fine.

I won't ask what would cause a 4-5 day delay in getting a hard drive....