I have a PC with a failing SATA drive. OS is XP Home Edition. I installed an IDE drive and loaded XP Pro on it and was able to access the failing drive and recover files. I then ran CHKDSK on the failing drive, then booted to an XP Home CD and ran recovery on the failing drive. Now the failing drive boots up fine. I want to grab an image of it so I can restore the image to a new SATA drive, but Ghost 8.0 seems to have an issue with the bad blocks. I'm using the -FRO switch and the Ignore CRC switch. The image process appears to go normally until it reaches 100% and no time or data left. Then those go negative and it keeps running. I let it run all last night and it was still running this morning. But it stopped creating image files hours before when it reached 100%. I ran an integrity check on the image and it failed.
Is it not possible to create a partition or drive image from a working drive with bad blocks?
Message Edited by M_Six on
10-19-2007 08:47 AM