Ghosting files from a HDD with a bad sector - good idea?

[Abs113]

I was recently told that ghosting my old HDD onto a new HDD wasn't a good idea. Because the new drive would then contain corrupt information on the usability of the bad sectors. This didn't sound too likely to me.

Has anyone successfully ghosted there entire HDD - which contained a bad sector onto a new HDD and had no problems?

I'm currently attempting this as Norton Speed Disk and Disk Doctor kept falling all over themselves each time they ran, due to the bad sector.

 

[Comtech]

If you're talking about using Norton's Ghost to do it, go right ahead. Ghost will ignore bad sectors, and copy the information as clean as possible to the new drive.
Ghost would be pretty useless if it copied bad data, and bad sectors to a brand new drive. Cheers,
Jim

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