On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 8:43:24 PM UTC, cd wrote:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 20:08:27 +0000, Tim Watts wrote:

They do have blocks - just like disks, which no longer have "sectors" as
such.

Either way, you've hit bad blocks which will not read - and you've
forced the software to skip them. That's all you can do. You've done the
best you can do...

Run chkdsk on the result to fix up any problems and you'll be OK.

Not to keen on the idea of having a SSD for a system drive. They don't
like too many re-writes, do they...

System drive is the best place for an SSD, assuming faster operation is the reason for having one. Recent consumer MLC drives are rated for tens of gigabytes of read/write every day for years; hopefully that should be more than enough for most domestic users.