How can I clone Hard Disk with Bad Clusters?

[jdunderhill]

Hi

My clients Hard Disk has developed Bad Clusters

I have run chkdsk with various switches and nothing will repair the bad clusters

I have tried cloning the disk with Norton Ghost but it runs into errors and bombs you out of the program with an error

I think that only a small portion of the disk has bad clusters

I was wondering if anyone knows of any software that will succesfully clone the NTFS disk and ignore the bad clusters?

Thanks in advance

Jamie

 

[alex304]

I believe Partition Magic comes with a program called magic mover. If you just install a new HDD, magic mover can move is applications to the new install without the programs installation disks/CDs.

 

[wolluf]

Hve you tried the new drive manufacturer's utility (they nearly all have such on their website to enable cloning old drive to their new)?

 

[jurgen36]

Use Acronics true file copy server, if it encounters problems it switches to bit copy mode, this might take a long time but all your intact files will be saved. Regards

Jurgen

 

[jdunderhill]

Excellent, I will try your suggestions, thanks for the help

 

[dbData]

DiskPatch says it can do it! Set the number of retries to 1 or 0.

 

[edfair]

Had you tried scandisk with a surface scan?

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[Rufusman]

If the data is vital to your client and nothing else works, go to

http://www.pcbsearch.com.au.

They have hardware that can stabilise hard drives long enough to copy data from the faulty one to a server.

They do not charge anything to look at the drive and charge a set fee if it is recoverable.