Software for imaging a BAD HDD..?

[kokaina]

I have to make an image of a hard-disk that have a bad block. I use some imaging software, bud becouse of that bad block, imaging is not working, is stops when try to image the bad blocks.
Could you give me an advice, for a good imaging software,wich can be use in this situation.

 

[rvnguy]

Is your intent to save you data from this drive?

With bad blocks, does this drive load you OS?

Can you determine what files/data is contained in the bad blocks?

If these are just data areas it might be safe to use chkdsk /r
to try to repair/relocate the bad blocks. This will also mark them as bad and then imaging should complete.

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[kokaina]

OS is working perfect. I want to make a complete image, to change this HDD ( with bad blocks).
Symantec Ghost is stoping to make this image, becouse it said that is a bad block.
Maybe I will try with chkdsk /r .
But I want to change the disk, to be sure that the problem is gone.

 

[wolluf]

If you've got replacement drive, have you tried using new drive manufacturer's utility to transfer the o/s?

If you're running XP/2k on this drive, you can set up another drive doing a normal copy and then running fixboot from recovery console. Best done by connecting both the bad and replacement drives to another machine, making sure its set to show hidden & system files, then just copy paste the whole shebang. When complete, put new drive in your machine, boot from install CD and run recovery console. Type fixboot (can do fixmbr for good measure), reboot and it should be ok. Make sure the partition on it is set active after the copy before you move it back to your machine.

(you could also do the copy from from something like BartPE disk in your own machine).

 

[kokaina]

The machine is a Windows 2003 standard and is a DomainController. And I think the best method is to make a image. But because of that bad blocks is not working.

 

[wuneyej]

I'm far from being a Ghost expert, but I think there are switches that can be applied to work around bad clusters on the source disk. Have a look at the list of switches in the user guide.

 

[ngkatsaras]

Try spinrite to fix the drive, use setting 2.

http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

 

[wolluf]

kokaina - my copy method will work with 2k3 too. What have you got to lose by trying it?

 

[kokaina]

OK, thanks for your reply.
I will try with copy and spinrite.