"Reallocated Sector Count".. What to do?

I was feeling a bit of down grade in the older hard drive speed.

HD Tune highlighted the "Reallocated Sector Count" SMART attribute of the older 300GB hard drive. It gave me following data:

Current: 175
Worst: 175
Threshold: 140
Data: 198

After searching a bit on net I came to know that this actually shows bad sectors on the hard disk. I also learned about Zeroing the drive that it may get the values back to normal (I dont know how it does or maybe its not true). So I backup-ed my data and zeroed the drive but now when I check it in HD Tune (or any other such utility like Everest and Active Smart), it still shows the same data.

Can anyone please suggest me what should I do? The hard disk after zeroing the drive, is showing "Un Initialized State" in disk management.

Will be grateful,
John Wright.

It's telling you there is a problem with that drive, replace it NOW.

there's your answer from Linux

zeroing does not fix the problem it hides it till it comes back worse

zeroing is why it looks like that in disk management if it were functional you would reformat it now

for clarity that drive will not reliably store data and any program run from it is likely to corrupt what ever data is working with

you have another drive use that if need be

Allright. Thanks a lot for your detailed replies guyz... I think I will keep the hard disk under use for now and also keep looking at the Reallocated sectors count value. If it increases, I will try to make up some money to buy a new drive ... Thanks once again..

This topic has been closed by Mousemonkey