Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 07:41:04 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Now bad physical HDD blocks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I ran an old version of Norton Disk Doctor which found 4-5 bad blocks and marked them. But the partition was an extended logical D: at the end of the drive right after the C: primary partition, the only other partition on the drive. It took 6+ hours to scan and mark the approx. 6GB D: partition. I really needed that area of data to be a primary partition. So thinking DD had written the info on the bad blocks to a partition table somewhere, I ran Partition Magic (at this point having upgraded to 8.0) to convert the D: logical drive to a hidden primary drive for doing tests with various flavors of Win98.
However after doing the conversion, and then attempting to restore a ghost image to the new primary partition, ghost failed about 3/4 of the way through the process complaining of problems writing to the drive.
Hmmm... now I'm wondering if ghost is ignoring the marked bad blocks and may be trying to restore the old image right over them.
Matt
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