CLARIFICATION ABOUT: bad block/superblock on new disk?

[M. Fioretti]

Hello all,

Thanks for the useful feedback received so far, but some of it makes
me wonder that maybe I did not make one thing clear:

both the disk we and the external case are talking about here are new,
just unboxed. There are no data to recover. I "only" need to

a) figure out if any of those two pieces is completely unusable,
   because defective from the factory, or damaged in shipping

2) if the drive is usable, just to format it, minus any damaged
   sector, so I can use it as EXTRA backup unit, in addition to
   another I already have. I.e. if it turns out that only 90/95% of
   sectors are usable, that is perfectly OK for me for the time being.

Marco

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