Bad sectors... how bad?

OK, so I'm crazy over all this HD stuff, I'm looking at HDs, tryingn to
find out if one brand is better than the other, what difference does buffer
make etc. All this concern is raised by the fact that I ran a chkdsk and
found one bad sector, and maybe my addled brain heard the dreaded
"clacking" from the HD. Setting aside my addled brain for the moment, how
bad is it really to find a bad sector? I mean, does this really mean my
drive is crashing? I just want to catch this before it crashes this time
so I don't have to spend hours re-loading all my programs again.

Any thoughts?

Paul
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