Imaging a hard drive with damaged sectors
Hello,
I have an old XP laptop that has confirmed damaged sectors and will no longer boot into Windows.
Ive been quoted a small fortune to get my photos etc and am willing to attempt recovery myself.
I have Acronis True Image 2013 installed on another computer and have created the Boot CD.
I don't intend to keep the old laptop so I don't need to clone the hard drive etc.
Would the best option to be using the boot cd to create a .tib image onto an external hard drive (making sure that ignore damaged sectors is ticked)
Then opening that image in my other computer and copying files from the image to a folder on my other computer?
I assume that 'ignore damaged sectors' means all the non corrupted files would be saved correct?
Or am I confusing myself with technobabble :-)
Hope this makes sense,
Paul
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Couldn't he also select/unselect the option to ignore bad sectors within ATI?
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