ATI and and Bad Sectors

[hitech444]

OK,
This is gonna be quick: If I restore a good HD image on a HD with bad sectors what will be the result?
Thanks guys !!!

[MrMorse]

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This is gonna be quick: If I restore a good HD image on a HD with bad sectors what will be the result?
Thanks guys !!!" }-
Do you mean a 'hard' sector which is marked as 'bad' by S.M.A.R.T.?
Or do you mean a sector which is build by formatting of the partition?

[MudCrab]

If you restore an image over a partition that has chkdsk marked bad sectors, the bad sectors may be used. You'd need to run chkdsk /r on the partition/drive after the restore to remark the bad sectors.

I know if you use DD to delete a partition and then recreate it, bad sectors are lost (I've done this several times on a drive I use for testing). I assume TI does the same thing when it deletes a partition prior to a restore.

In any case, I'd be careful using a drive that has very many bad sectors for anything important.

[hitech444]

OK, MrMorse, I have just one sector marked "B" by chkdsk. I used the Western Digital utility. Said it found an error which could be remedied. But even after that Windows still has the same problem opening every time.
So, I thought I could use a previously saved image on that machine to fix it.