Tungsram Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 I'm attempting to upgrade a harddrive, (to a larger one), with a highly proprietary application on it. It has WinXP and I atttempted to Ghost it to another physical drive but Ghost failed stating a bad sector.Scandisk at boot with sector recovery hangs at 19% and will not finish. I cannot "format and reinstall" as there is no method of reinstalling the application.Any suggestions on how to fix this sector/block issue without formatting would be greatly GREATLY appreciated.Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tungsram Posted March 24, 2005 Author Share Posted March 24, 2005 Additional information...Even with the bad sector everything is working fine. I'm not concerned about any data on that sector, I simply want it marked as bad so that Ghost can image it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefoxthebomb Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 you can try running Norton Disk Doctor on it Version 2005 I think is the latest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tungsram Posted March 24, 2005 Author Share Posted March 24, 2005 you can try running Norton Disk Doctor on it Version 2005 I think is the latest.From what I understand, it's disk checking method is essentially CHKDSK- which isn't working in this case.Anyone have experience with Spinrite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldier1st Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 scandisk is crap,norton disk doctor 2005 that comes with norton systemworks is the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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