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"Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote:
> "Zvi Netiv" <support@replace_with_domain.com> wrote in message
> > "Hod" <hodwi@netvision.net.il> wrote:
> > > I have a large ntfs partition with several bad sectors.
> > > I want to copy it using partitionmagic to another disk.
> > > How can I do this with out coping the bad sectors also?
> >
> > It depends on whether there is data in the bad sectors that you want to recover,
> > or there is none. If no important data resides in the bad sectors then do as
> > suggested by Michael Cecil (create a partition and copy to it with XXCOPY x:\
> > y:\ /CLONE, where x,y denote the drive letters assigned to the source drive and
> > destination).
> >
> > If you wish trying to recover the data in the bad sectors, or the drive is
> > deteriorating and dying, then clone the drive immediately before it's too late.
>
> If the drive is really dying, mindlessly copying the whole drive instead of what you
> need from it will kill the drive for sure.
If copying what he needed was so easy then he wouldn't need your advise for it.
Based on vast experience, cloning is the best solution for saving the content of
a dying drive, and gives the highest chances for a full recovery.
Regards, Zvi
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