When you run the format command in Command Prompt to format a drive on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer, the format operation may fail or be unable to complete and output the message Bad sectors ...
I just received a new hard drive (a 1TB WD MyBook Essentials) yesterday, ran the included WD LifeGuard program, and it failed on the extended test. I then tried the verify surface scan test in hddscan ...