cloning a dying disk

[Sverre]

My 200GB with win2003 disk got corrupt today. After rebooting it would not start because of missing registry files (system and software) I managed to replace them with som old ones to reboot. After reboot I ran scandisk. It took about 10 hours and came up with some hundreds of files with bad clusters. when it was finished it said that the disk was OK. I have now installed a new disk and will use symantec ghost to clone the disk. When I started ghost said "checking NTFS volume - please wait" for about two hours before starting to clone. After two minutes an Application error occured stating: Read sector failure result=1, drive=0 sectors 992375 to 992439. If the problem opersists, contact symantec technical support at

http://service.symantec.com.

I OK the message and Ghost exits. I was hoping to get the most from the old disk to the new one and fix the problems there. Any ideas - anyone.

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[lb63640]

Contact Symantec.

 

[dbData]

Ghost can be a pain to use when a drive has errors.

When you say clone, I take that as imaging the disk sector for sector to another disk.

If that is your goal, you need a tool that will ignore physical errors and one that doesn't "care" about file system structures. While I haven't tried it for imaging DiskPatch offers an imaging function and the product is fairly inexpensive. You can find more information about DiskPatch and other imaging software at

http://www.data-recovery-hub.com/guides/software/media-imaging.php.

Best of Luck!

Rick

 

[Sverre]

Thank you for answers!
Due to the importance off getting the server up and run the next day, I did it the safe, but long and hard way: New blank disk - reinstalled everything from scratch. reconfigured setting and so. Finally restored critical user/business data from rescued partition from dying disk. It took all night, but now everyone in the office is happy - I am still a bit tired 4 days later, but now it is weekend You all have a nice one...

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