guys kindly give me some help.

i have got a bad sector on my hard drive (Seagate 250 GB SATA HDD).

in Palimpest Disk Utility it shows-
ID - 197
Attribute - Current Pending Sector Count
Current - 100
Worst - 100
Threshold - 0
Value - 1 Sector
Status - FAILING
Type - Old-age
Updates - Online.

i have completely erased the partitions and everything on my drive with Palimpest but the bad sector is still there.
will completely formatting the HDD remove this bad sector?can you guys tell me or give me some links regarding formatting with fdisk, mkfs, cfdisk.

guys would low-level formatting remove the bad sector? how can this be done in Linux.
i am inexperienced in hard disk formatting/partitioning stuff.i have tried using badblocks but it freezes my pc everytime at about 10.31%.
i just want use my hdd. i dont care much about data stability or consistency. if the bad sector can't be removed then is there any way by which i can direct my OS to skip the bad sectors so that those sectors are not accessed.

PS. if all this is too much of a bother to you guys, you could just give me some links to using fdisk, mkfs, cfdisk. i would be very grateful

right now booting F11 from USB Drive. thanks for hearing my rant.

First try "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourdrive bs=1024000" and be very careful with this one command as it can wipe whatever you selected by mistake.

If the drive doesn't remap the bad block automatically, try creating your fs like "mke2fs -j -cc ..." This way drive should be checked for bad blocks and these marked to not be used.

Good to check if your drive is under warranty though.

thanks for ur reply avalonit.