HELP

eldiablo696 · 12 Mar 2011 at 12:20

I am using macrium (as suggested by ocuker's) to copy my disk image over to new hard drive (slave).

The software was easy to use and it went well and I copied over to new hard drive and it is working.

The download contains all the bad sectors from old drive?

How do I do this without copying the bad sectors onto new drive?

eldiablo696 · 12 Mar 2011 at 14:34

Would really appreciate some help, PLEASE

Even if you just say that it can not be done

eldiablo696 · 12 Mar 2011 at 16:56

If anyones interested

Apparently, it does not copy the actual bad sectors in the image.

It only copies over the fact that they are marked as bad sectors.

So these sectors can not be used, as they are pre-marked by chkdsk as bad sectors.

But will be included in the image and present no danger whatsoever.

If anyone can help:

I ran a chkdsk on a hard drive.

there was some noise, like on start up and during 4 out of the five stages of chkdsk.

During the freespace check there was no noise.

If I set the partition to end at the size of the image.

Then select the new partion area to copy the image to.

Will this mean that I will totally avoid the noise.

8gb image size.
Partition new disk at 10gb leaving 67gb
Restore image to 67gb.

Will this mean I avoid using the part of the disk making all of the noise.

It makes sense to me.......

Also i tried to download easus and when I tried to open it twice, it took over my internet and opened up 100s of sessions in my task manager. I downloaded it from cnet.com

eldiablo696 · 12 Mar 2011 at 18:22

I have now created a partition containing the bad part of new disk.

I want to make an image and copy to new drive, to boot from.

Only problem is I now have the bad partition attached to my computer on old drive. I am unable to detach (remove) the newly created drive from my old drive.

Do not want to include that extra 10gb in the image.

Any suggestions or directions would be appreciated.....

So many people looking at post, but no replies?