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Event ID 7 The device has a bad block
These appear in the System log and for as much surfing as I've done on the topic I'm not clear on what Windows is telling me. Yes the hard disk drive (spinner) has bad blocks, but according to SMART and HD Tune and etc they are not yet at a critical stage, and AFAICT there is no impact to the day-to-day operation of the computer. But of course the errors in the log are disturbing.
I've done the chkdsk repair blocks thing which I *thought* would map the bad blocks out of operation, and subsequent runs of chkdsk declare everything's OK. So is it simply the case that once a drive has developed a bad block that Win7 somehow trips-over the thing forever? Or is ID 7 telling me that no amount of re-allocation or repair has worked and I need to replace the hard disk?