Ghosting from a disk with bad sectors?

[Comage]

Hi guys, I would like to know if it's alright to ghost a working hard disk drive, with a bad sector, onto another perfectly working hard drive.

I have already done a full scandisk on the faulty drive, and all bad sectors are already marked out. Apart from the risk being that the data moved out from the bad sectors has already been corrupted, are there any other issues I should need to take note of?

Also, if I restore the image back to another perfectly working hard drive, would the operating system see the drive having a bad sector (since it was cloned from one with a bad sector)?

Please advise. Thanks in advance. :)

[Comage]

I was using Norton Ghost to create a backup image of my drive under the WinXP environment, and left it running for awhile. When the time elapsed reached 36+ mins, the progress bar was only halfway through.

Remembering that a Ghost backup didn't take that long, I aborted the operation and created a Ghost Boot Diskette instead, and did a Disk to Image operation. It completed under the PC-DOS environment in around 9 minutes.

I was just wondering why there is such a big difference in the amount of time taken, and what are the differences between these two seemingly same operations, but under different OS environments.

[BipolarBill]

Lets' not speculate. You have your image.

What happens when you scan for bad sectors is that the blocks are marked and what data can be saved is relocated to other sectors. The worst that could happen is that the image would be missing small amounts of data.

It should work. If it fails, you can explore the image and extract any data you need. Consider yourself lucky - most people lose the entire drive.

[pode1]

hi

... talking about strange things i got to say that .my images get slim form right after strange behavior of scandisk´s passes by.

SDisk gets over 90 % then it comes back to 86% and then appears lost clusters and then ghost images reduced at 10% of the original size ....

I suspect from viruses .... of course but NAV .... and others doesn´t find anything


PD
win98se, Norton utilities 2k4

[pode1]

i add that i had replaced scandisk and scandiskw from win98se´s cd, and the trouble keeps coming ...