Bad sectors and CRC failure

[tbalazs]

My PC has the first HDD with 95 on C: and 2000Pro on E: (NTFS), the 2nd HDD (slave) formatted NTFS.
E: is showing bad sectors and the effect is that Outlook is screwing up (I lost some incoming mail yesterday that downloaded but didn't write to the drive) and if I try to copy the pst file to D: it stops 3/4 of the way through and gives me a cyclic redundancy error (whatever that is). Copy also fails under safe mode / command prompt only.
I have performed disk checking on E: but although the process aappears to complete, the error remains.
Can I do anything other than reinstall 2000 on E?
Can I do something similar to xcopy /s/c/h/e/r/k/y (which I would do under 95/98), copying everything on E: to D:, formatting E: and copying everything back? I know that when I have tried this xcopy under 2000 before I get file access errors in root and \winnt.
Any ideas please?
Tony.

 

[FatesWebb]

crc error means the file is corrupt.
you can drag and drop files, to copy them. but programs will have to be reinstalled... also windows will have to be resetup (WIN2K)

FatesWebb

if you do what I suggested it is not my fault...