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I need to do partitioning to an NTFS drive that gparted said it has bad sectors. (I made a question here)

Anyways I followed its advice of using chkdsk on windows and restarted it twice but gparted still says it has bad sectors.

I thought I'd try another method and found this program (badblocks). I looked up the documentation but the program seems a bit dangerous to use on my own. (Here's the documentation)

I can't figure out the command I need to use. ... also if there's a better suggestion for a program that can help me don't hesitate. Thanks in advance :)

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sudo badblocks -nvs /dev/sdX and replace sdX with the partition you want

-nvs would make a non destructive test and would show the progress and "would give a verbose output" (which means a more explicit output)

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