Bad Sectors Relocation on Windows XP

Bad Sectors Relocation on Windows XP I think my hard disk contains bad sectors and those bad sectors locate on the place where VM instance is, is there a tool that will allow me to fix those errors, or at least shift all the bad sectors from crucial point to the no so crucial place, so that I can do still boot up my VM machine?
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First, why would you want to entrust your VM to a disk that has developed bad sectors? Even if you could recover the bad sectors (I have heard of programs that supposedly do this), would you really feel confident they wouldn't go bad again - soon? New hard drvies are dirt cheap. 1TB for $80. Maybe less. Go get a new hard drive and use something that hasn't proven suspect. That said, if this is critical, why are you not using RAID? A RAID 1 mirror would help ensure you don't lose anything - and it costs an extra $80 (for that 1 TB drive and MAYBE an extra $50 for a controller, if your motherboard doesn't support it).