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Clone from disk with bad sector, Will it work (blend) ?

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Hello, i have a bad sector problem, and CHKDSK /R get stuck.

Will acronis live CD work correctly to back up my drive data while it have bad sectors or will it copy blindly everything and won't try something to get the files ?

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Jules,

The answer is, it depends, if the damage to your drive is so great TI won't be able to make an clone at all. If the damage is in unused sectors or perhaps part of a used sector, TI might work.

As far as checkdisk is concerned it might be better to try starting it 'offline' when the OS isn't running. If you have a Windows Recovery CD or the installation DVD you could use this to boot your PC and then run chkdsk from there. How you would go about this depends on if you have XP, or Vista onwards.