Bad sectors on hard drive

[dashogun]

It seems that my 160gb SATA hdd contains some bad sectors. When I did a windows os format, it would stop at 72% and remain at 72%. I wanted to reformat this hard drive because it was giving me copy/paste errors and game errors.

Is there some program I can use to fix these bad sectors or make windows ignore them?

 

[farinha]

Scandisk from windows?

 

[kurtowns]

delete all partitions & then repartition the drive

 

[EricB]

use powermax to write zero's to it. then run spinrite 6.0