Therefore I am curious, considering that the disk is almost new etc., is this a really bad sign (a sign of disk starting to go south)? I mean is this necessarily a sing of further troubles?

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GPT is replacing MBR simply because it has fewer limitations. For example, the maximum partition size of an MBR disk that's ...

A hard bad sector has suffered physical damage to a certain block of space, such as from an impact, manufacturing defect or even a small speck of dust on the drive's internal disk.

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