Bad sectors in hd drive

Hi, All,
  my  X240 with windows 8.1  recently becomes unstable (error message, pause , and can not shut down properly), so I did a check disk (" chkdsk/f ") on my old X240 today , and it found 96kb bad sector. see the reprot below,  I am thinking to replace the current harddrive with a new one , but I wonder if the installation of the operating system would be difficult becuase the laptop comes with no windows OS CD.
regards,
tao

I had difficulty to post the check disk report momnets ago. here it is
Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
  301312 file records processed.                                                         File verification completed.
  6185 large file records processed.                                      0 bad file records processed.                                      
Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
  380874 index entries processed.                                                        Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is scanning unindexed files for reconnect to their original directory.
  1 unindexed files scanned.                                         Recovering orphaned file {AB411~1 (152289) into directory file 246641.
Recovering orphaned file {ab41190e-85c2-44a1-a488-a37f5d69caaf} (152289) into directory file 246641.
  0 unindexed files recovered.                                       
Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Cleaning up 45 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 45 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 45 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
  39782 data files processed.                                            CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
No further action is required.
 474501119 KB total disk space.
  80789220 KB in 217948 files.
    132588 KB in 39783 indexes.
        96 KB in bad sectors.
    386579 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
 393192636 KB available on disk.
      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
 118625279 total allocation units on disk.
  98298159 allocation units available on disk.

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    My question is that how can I know the size of disk space marked as bad sector? Because I can only see how many space is used or available when I check a disk in disk utility. There are about 600MB used for my 1TB hard drive. I guess there is some storage used by spotlight or other hidden files. But I have no idea for how many MB is occupied by bad sector...

    Yes you can look at see the original number of spares, the number used, and the number remaining spares.
    Disk Warrior for one, writes the SMART data to system.log Other programs can also read and report (not sure which if any write to system.log though) those field values from SMART table entries.
    IF the number of spares is declining, time to replace. Trouble is OS X hasn't had a good record of reporting I/O errors, let alone remapping. Some 3rd party utilities will. I've found the vendor (WD, Hitachi etc) have the best utility for their own drives, but those are Windows programs or LinuxCD. Also the best way to zero and map out bad sectors, too.

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