Bad Sectors??

If I have an image copy of a partition with bad sectors, will a restore to a different partition on another HD contain those bad sectors?

TIA

 

Hello rclodfelter,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

When Acronis True Image (any edition) creates an image archive of a partition or a disk that has bad sectors (marked in the file system, e.g. using ScanDisk or chkdsk), it records the information regarding the bad sectors as well. So, if one restores the image archive, he/she will get these bad sectors on the new location. The sectors will not be actually bad, but they will be marked as bad in the file system (because it has been restored without any changes).

In order to avoid transferring bad sectors to the new location, you should restore the image archive resizing the partition(s). Considering that it is impossible to resize partitions when restoring an image of a whole hard disk, there is no way to avoid restoring bad sectors in such a case. It is only possible to eliminate the bad sectors by restoring the partitions separately with resizing.

Thank you.
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Irina Shirokova

 

Instead of choosing to restore the whole image, wouldn't it be possible to restore all the files? Would that not recreate the file system structures?

 

Hi, Acronis Support

Surely you should be able to restore to a larger HDD, which can then be resized.

Take Care,
TheQuest

 

For some further insight into this issue see:
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=82535