Resize Partition To Avoid Bad Sectors Help Needed

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I have a hard disk that has bad sectors on it, and it's affecting windows system files as the sectors are on my boot partition, is there any way to resize my C drive to avoid the sectors and restore my windows true image to it, so there's no more corrupt data that's on the bad sectors?

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Sat, 12/24/2011 - 10:25
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Not really. When you restore the image it will "clear" the bad sectors and you would need to run chkdsk /r to mark them again (possibly losing the data written there). And this assumes TI would restore the image with resizing and wouldn't abort when it ran into the bad sectors. If you knew the bad sectors were close to the beginning or end of the partition you might be able to avoid them by moving the partition so it doesn't include them.

Usually, when a drive gets enough bad sectors to have them start showing up, it's time to get a new drive.

Sun, 12/25/2011 - 02:15