unmark bad sectors

On the notebook I switched HDD because the previous one had some bad sectors checked with 'chkdsk -f -r'. So I made an image to a network drive using TI and then inserted the new HDD and extracted the image from the network drive to this new disk using TI.
Then I went to Acornis DD and tried to resize the partition since the new disk is much larger than the previous one (60GB vs 160GB). When I want to resize the partition it says that it cannot do so because there is 16KB of bad sectors. Which is impossible since I haven't checked the drive yet and it is brand new.
So it is my conclusion that TI also marks/recreates bad sectors.

So how do I unmark bad sectors?

Both disks are Samsung Spinpoint

steps I tried:
chkdsk /r on the new disk

 

Re: restoring bad sectors

What you should have done was to do the resizing as part of the restore process. Ie. restore each partition with resizing rather than the whole disk as is.
The reason for the anomaly is that the image contains details of which sectors are bad and this information is carried forward faithfully to the new drive. However some resizing in the restore run will ensure that the "bad sector" records are not taken to the new drive.

Xpilot

 

but how do I unmark it since I would rather not do the entire restoring again?

 

Have you tried running chkdsk /r on the new drive? This will sometimes allow DD to resize a partition it previously wouldn't.

How long did the restore take? The chkdsk may take longer, depending on how much data was in the restore, your source, etc.

 

chkdsk /r has been ran which I already said in the original post.
restore took 2 hours. Because it was copying over LAN about 60GB of data.

 

Your original post states that you ran chkdsk /r on the bad disk. Try running it on the good disk now.

 

sorry my bad. was sure that I mentioned it in the OP.
anyway
chkdsk /r
don't work since it only checks for new bad blocks but skips old ones

 

i found something here:
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsclone#reseting_the_bad_sectors_list_after_cloning
that should do the trick.
Damn MS it one thing to keep NTFS filesystem closed source but it's another thing to note produce a utility that would allow reseting bad sector list after cloning.

 

While all this chat has been going on you could have run a re-sizing restore almost twice .

Xpilot

 

Interesting. That trick worked recently for this person (see posts 9 - 11). If it isn't working for you then try Xpilot's recommendation above.

Xpilot: The person referred to above was prevented from doing a restore with resizing because of having bad sectors in the image. Do you know why this sometimes works and sometimes doesn't?

 

Mark,

It was DD that wouldn't do the resize.

 

If you're using Vista, there is a new chkdsk switch that offers this feature:

Code:

/B              NTFS only: Re-evaluates bad clusters on the volume
                (implies /R)

 

No, I think sparkyguy was referring to TI. See his post #1.

 

Sorry. I missed you were referring to sparkyguy in the link.