Clone convention

[Peter_41]

What happens if you try to clone a drive (XP Pro) that has one or more bad sectors on it?

So far as I know everything on the drive works as it should, but I have discovered that it has at least one bad sector. Acronis reported it during backup, I told it to skip, and it appears to have completed satisfactorily. There may be no data in the sector, but Acronis doesn't know that nor do I.

The computer has a second hard drive that I can clone this partition to in case the backup or my recovery attempts don't work, but I am left to wonder if it will clone the bad sector as well.

[foghorne]

-{ Quote: "What happens if you try to clone a drive (XP Pro) that has one or more bad sectors on it?

So far as I know everything on the drive works as it should, but I have discovered that it has at least one bad sector. Acronis reported it during backup, I told it to skip, and it appears to have completed satisfactorily. There may be no data in the sector, but Acronis doesn't know that nor do I.

The computer has a second hard drive that I can clone this partition to in case the backup or my recovery attempts don't work, but I am left to wonder if it will clone the bad sector as well." }-

Did you try running chkdsk /R. What does it report, did it manage to fix anything ?

F.

[shieber]

Best is to make a backup as soon as you notice bad sectors -- you noticed while making a backup so you have that covered. Then run a disk scan (chkdsk, or some other vendor's disk checker) and clean up any bad sectors. If progrs seem to behave okay after the disk scan, then make a backup of the fixed up disk.

If more bad sectors start showing up, then you disk is probably going south and you should replace it.

[Acronis Support]

Hello Peter_41,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software (http://www.acronis.com/products/).

Please notice that shieber and foghorne are correct.
Please see this post (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=963423&postcount=4) regarding cloning/imaging with bad sectors.

Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov