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hard disk working but few bad sectors - can i restore to new hard drive from image created from such existing hard drive?

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hard disk working but few bad sectors - can i restore to new hard drive from image created from such existing hard drive?

I have a laptop with 750 gb hard disk. all working fine except i think few bad sectors have developed. thats why probably the system shows blue screen and had to be restarted. Can i create a full back up image and restore using TI CD to a new hard disk?

Will bad sectors be copied?

I dont want to install os and tonnes of softwares and updates again pls?

Edit: i want to add that i came to know few bad sectors as chkdsk and dell drive test shows few bad sectors...also teracopy fails copying sometimes saying bad sectors

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First, stop using/connecting/accessing the drive until you are ready to perform the backup. The more you run a failing drive, the more likely it is to suffer further or complete loss.

Boot from the ATI bootable Rescue Media and perform a full disk mode backup to another drive. If it works, great. If it doesn't, report back here.

P.S. Do you have a recent full disk backup from prior to the drive errors occurring? That would normally be the place to go for recovery.

I had a problem with my disk light on steady and I couldn't do anything at all. Someone finally suggested that I had a disk problem so I ran the diskcheck in Windows 7 and it found and corrected a number of sectors. I ran it twice more and the last time it found only one. The computer works fine now but when I tried to do an incremental backup, it stopped with a bad sector. It ran some more and just hung up, I presume trying to read another bad sector. I couldn't do anything and had to hold down the power button to stop it I do have an acronis backup from September and have downloaded the files created since then so I con restore to a new disk. Another thing is that I have done full backups in the past; this time I tried to do an incremental but it name the file as full. I had hoped the incremental would work.

Why am I not able to do an incremental backup?
Why is MS reading and correcting bad sectors but acronis is not?
Should I just give up on this hard drive?

Thanks, Elliot

Yes, gvie up on the drive. Restore one of your backups onto a new disk and then run check the new disk for disk errors just in case any got transferred onto the new disk from the backup.