Bad Sectors

[wev162]

I've been having some BSODs, small data corruption issues and general system oddities on my IBM T60 WinXP laptop. I ran Chkdsk and noticed I've got 16kb of bad sectors on my Hard Drive. I'm not certain whether I'm looking at a System or a Hard drive failure in progress but seeing any bad sectors on a hard drive makes me loose confidence for storing any important data on it.

Am I being paranoid and should consider looking past the small number of bad sectors or is an RMA under warranty in order?

Thanks for your opinion!

 

[tdg]

Download and run Hitachi's DFT on the drive, do the thorough test. If it fails RMA it.