Storage Solutions What am i supposed to do with this laptop HDD, HDTune screenshots inside ?

[raksrules]

I have this 2.5" Hitachi Laptop HDD and i was of the opinion that it is totally dead and even i had put up on sale as dead HDD. But i decided to give it a shot and connected it using a HDD enclosure and i was actually able to copy stuff in the HDD, format it. The copy happened at very slow speed of like 5MBps.
So now i fired up HDD tune pro and this is what i get...please check the screenshots.

Suggest me what can be done with this ?
Is this sellable and if yes then how much to expect and in what condition ?
Any way to stop the bad sectors from propagating ?

 

[vivek.krishnan]

The first thing I did was to partition off the bad sectors, so you might have about 3 or more partitions on the drive. Apart from that, nothing can be done.

Do an estimate of the space that you have before the bad sectors, ensure that there is a 5% gap (from the good to bad sectors) to be on the safe side and do the same after the bad sectors too.

 

[raksrules]

How do you partition off the bad sectors ?

 

[vivek.krishnan]

Estimate the free space before the bad sectors, make a single partition. Estimate the same for the space occupied by the bad sectors and do the same. Finally, make another partition for the remaining space.

 

[aman.pitbull]

I've done the same, I've partitioned off 8 bad sectors, created 2 partitions and now I'm still using the same HDD. It was a 160GB Seagate HDD on Asus eeePC 1000HE.
I noted down the sector number of bad sectors, and using partition magic avoided the bad sectors and created 2 partitions. No new bad sectors have appeared, I lost ~10GB of capacity due to the few blocked sectors. (but bad sectors usually increase! )

 

[raksrules]

I've done the same, I've partitioned off 8 bad sectors, created 2 partitions and now I'm still using the same HDD. It was a 160GB Seagate HDD on Asus eeePC 1000HE.
I noted down the sector number of bad sectors, and using partition magic avoided the bad sectors and created 2 partitions. No new bad sectors have appeared, I lost ~10GB of capacity due to the few blocked sectors. (but bad sectors usually increase! )

Can you explain in detail what all tools I need to install in PC to find the actual numbers and how to segregate the bad sectors ?
If my understanding is correct and looking at the HDTune screenshot above, i feel i will need to make 3 partitions, the first & third would be without bad sectors while the second one with bad sectors.
I have never done all this so i am unaware about it.

 

[vivek.krishnan]

Exactly. Since each green block is of 61MB, count the number of rows x columns you feel as a safe estimate. So, if there are X blocks, the first partition should be of 61*X MB. Do the same with the bad sectors. Remaining size should be whats left out.

Do all this with Windows Disk Managment Utility or any partition manager of your choice.