Hiya

Running Karmic Koala and had some trouble booting. Kept hanging at GRUB. Repeatedly tried to restart and eventually got going after killing the power and letting it sit for a few minutes. Upon boot....it was slow and I get a message about bad sectors. I know there are bad sectors....this box was windows XP before it was Ubuntu, and windows was already telling me bad sectors.

Anyway....Ubuntu says 23 bad sectors, which is a hell of a lot more than windows was telling me a few weeks ago and more than what Ubuntu said when it was first installed. So.....how bad is 23 bad sectors?