Will windows detect bad sectors before installation?

[MySeaGateIsDown]

I have a HDD that is about to be RMAd due to a few bad sectors. So before I could apply, I am making sure that it's not false positive. I'm about to format the drive and re install the OS. Will windows 10 detect bad sectors during installation?

 

[Ali Tauseef]

I doubt that formatting the hard drive will help much. I'd recommend you to get a new one for safety.

 

[Gingerbread]

Formatting won't change anything when it comes to bad sectors.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Will windows 10 detect bad sectors during installation?

Windows installation is not the way to test that.
You can test your drive for bad sectors with chkdsk utility.

Thing is, that bad sectors not necessary mean that drive is bad.
You have to check SMART parameters of drive to determine that.
Use HDtune health, post screenshot.

 

[MySeaGateIsDown]

So I installed Windows again. Hard disk health stats are now good. No smart errors. What should I do now?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you post HDtune health screenshot?

 

[johnbl]

full formats will locate and mark bad clusters/sectors. A quick format will not check.
windows 8.x and above will run a background process while the system is idle. It will attempt to data integrity checking on all of your drives.
It will read each sector and check for read errors. If it gets a error, it will attempt to read the data over and over to get a copy without a error. If it does it will move the data to a new sector and mark the old sector as bad. This process can take a long time (days). This new process was implemented as a response to the very large drives and the time extreme amount of time that chkdsk would take to run.
It is normal for a spinning hard drive to have bad sectors, these sectors even appear to move as the drive starts to wear. Solid state drives use a different method as data blocks go bad. (very limited writes to a solid state drive before location has to be marked bad, and the block has to be copied to a new block and the old one marked as dead. (maybe 2000 writes and the block dies)

tools like crystaldiskinfo.exe can read the SMART error data stored on the drive and give you an idea of how many errors are being reported. Note: poor cable connections can be a root cause of some of the errors or poor performance.