Bad Blocks on Hard Disk

[Mr20]

I have a Maxtor Hard drive that has been experiencing some problems lately. I used the PowerMax Diagnostic Tool recommended by Maxtor and it detected some bad blocks on my disk. Maxtor suggested that I purchase a new hard drive because my current one is failing. When I purchase the new hard drive, I want to copy everything from the bad hard drive to the new hard drive without copying the bad blocks.

Is there a tool that can accomplish this goal.

Other Suggestions or Solutions will be greatly appreciated.

 

[soons]

I use Norton Ghost. It works from a dos boot up disk and can copy drive to drive, partition to partition, and can also make a "Ghost" backup file of a drive or partition in case your drive crashes. You can buy it separately or it also comes with Norton Systemworks Pro I believe. Good luck.

 

[Mr20]

Thanks Soons,

I have a copy of Norton Ghost and I'm reading the User Guide right now.

Another Question:

If I use Norton Ghost to backup my current hard drive, wouldn't it also copy the bad blocks over to my new hard drive.

 

[diogenes10]

I dont think it copies the bad blocks unless you choose a sector to sector copy option.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...sf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=

 

[diogenes10]

Two other comments for you:

1) here is a nice reference site about ghost.

http://ghost.radified.com/

2) When you start making your images, go slowly and think about what you're doing. There have been several sad posts in another forum lately from folks who got careless at the last minute and ghosted the blank drive over the data drive instead of vice versa.