You could try Duplicating it with Ghost, I've never seen that replicate bad
sectors. Not sure I've tried imaging a drive with unrecoverable bad
sectors, though.
Phil
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Yup - no joy.
Apart from reporting that 304KB of bad sectors exist when they do not
(cannot) everything is A1. It's looking like I will have to live with this.
Thanks
John
"Phil Barila" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Did you run chkdsk /r on it?
>
> Phil
> --
> Philip D. Barila Windows DDK MVP
> Seagate Technology, LLC
> (720) 684-1842
> As if I need to say it: Not speaking for Seagate.
> E-mail address is pointed at a domain squatter. Use reply-to instead.
>
>
> "vagabond" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> My hard drive was developing bad sectors so I (using PQ Drive Image 5)
> copied it to an identical new drive. The original drive had 304KB marked
as
> bad sectors - this had been increasing at the rate of 20KB per day.
>
> The copy was painless but when I ran chkdsk on the new drive it still
> reports 304KB in bad sectors.
>
> I'm guessing that XP is keeping a record of these and it hasn't reset the
> total.
>
> Possibly in the $BadClus file; is there any way to edit this or maybe
> delete it and have it recreated?
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
>
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