Bad Block Troubles with XP Pro

[jeffestes]

I've a WD400 40GB EIDE drive that has started experiencing bad block errors. I received a warranty replacement (refurbished) from WD and am ready to replace the bad drive now. Then Mr. Murphy showed up.

I attempted to perform XP's "Backup" from the quickly deteriorating WD400 to the replacement, but the operation failed for a variety of errors found in the system. An 8GB backup file was, however, created on the new disk but the log file generated from the backup process indicated that that any attempt to restore from this copy will not create a workable system.

Other that starting from scratch - can anyone provide guidance on this issue?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[linney]

If your Harddrive is bad then you will always have problems getting data off it.

One other possible reason for backup errors is that your Volume Shadow Copy service was not running.

It might come down to a case of save what data (files) you can, reinstall XP, updates and programs on your new drive.

 

[jeffestes]

Ok, thanks!

 

[TheZeDD]

Have you tried running a scandisk and allowing it to fix/recover bad sectors via safemode or even dos if possible?

PowerQuest makes a pretty good recovery tool that runs in dos and can recover more then you care to. After it has run it will inform you of what it can and cannot recover and give you the option to save what data you can.

Keep Us Posted!

-Z