Hitachi bad sector problems.

[fatboyuk]

Guys.

Any ideas how I can mark a couple of bad sectors on an Hitachi HDT725040VLA360?

I tried the Windows checkdisk thing and try to auto fix errors but when I am trying to unzip something to that drive its still getting the errors.

Is the only way by using the official Hitachi software or is there a couple of other things I can try first - don't fancy low level formats (if you can still do those!!)

Luckily got all the data off the drive anyway so any ideas greatly appreciated.

XP SP3 if that makes any difference.

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