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Question : Copy drive without copying bad sectors
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I am using Ghost 12.0 to copy my entire drive c:/ to a second internal drive (L:/). There are many bad sectors (52Kb) reported on the c:/ drive that I want to copy (though these have so far not interfered with drive operation) and these bad sectors seem to be copied to the L:/ drive since chkdsk reports the identical number of bad sectors on each drive after completion of the disk copy routine. The c:/ drive is a Samsung and the L:/ drive is a WD. I am getting a brand new Samsung drive for a new target drive (L:/) but don't want to end up with large numbers of "bad" sectors on a brand new drive. I also don't want to go throuigh the process of rebuilding L:/, since that's what Ghost is supposed to avoid.
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Answer : Copy drive without copying bad sectors
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I found lots of Google references for bad sector reset with NTFS:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=reset+bad+sector+ntfs
The only tools that I have personally used though are PM and SpinRite.
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