Persistant Lost Clusters after Ghosting

[Abs113]

I seem to have encountered a problem. After ghosting my old HDD - which contained a bad sector onto a new HDD, I immediately ran Norton Disk Doctor and Speed Disk.

NDD found no problems and was fine but Speed Disk keeps detecting a lost cluster and then prompts me to run NDD which then freezes my computer forcing me to reboot.

I've tried running NDD in MS-DOS mode then starting Speed Disk with all other programs disabled, which Norton recommends with no success. Does anyone have any ideas on a fix for this problem?

 

[hotfusion]

I don't know the cause of the problem, but it's only a lost cluster after all, which is data, not physical as a bad sector is. Try running good old scandisk set to free up lost clusters and it should just disappear into the sunset. The forced re-boots may be causing the lost cluster by the way.(In my experience, lost clusters rarely contain anything useful) Andy.

 

[tlcscousin]

I could be quite wrong but i am under the impression that ghost creates an exact image.If there were a bad sector ghost would copy that bad sector.It would not really be there but it would appear to be.

 

[hotfusion]

Good point - you're right I'm sure, as the same goes for a badly fragmented drive - the copy is exactly the same which is why you should do a defrag before you ghost. :-D My suggestions are what I would try myself. If incorrect, I welcome corrections to my knowledge. Andy.