Sector-by-sector restoration and hard drive bad sectors

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Hello,

I have Acronis True Image Home 11 with XP Sp2 and a hard drive with 2 partitions.
I have an incremental backup that I've done without the sector-by-sector option.
I'd like to restore it using the restore sector-by-sector option: my intention is to install a few programs and create another incremental backup. I'd like to do that because I noticed that if I do a sector-by-sector restoration (even if the backup wasn't created with the sector-by-sector option) and then I create an incremental backup, the size of this incremental backup is much smaller than if I would have done a restoration without the sector-by-sector option.
My problem is that since I've created the initial incremental backup I want to restore (using the sector-by-sector option) now, I had problems with my hard drive and I had to correct some bad sectors with windows checkdisk.
My question is: if I do a sector-by-sector restoration of that initial incremental backup, could I have problems (bad sectors issues...) with my hard drive? And I also would like to know why can I do a sector-by-sector restoration whereas I didn't make a a sector-by-sector backup? What is exactly the difference between a sector-by-sector restoration and a normal restoration when the backup wasn't created with the sector-by-sector option?

Thanks for your help.

Lun, 11/23/2009 - 12:42
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If you are using a modern hard disk which is showing bad sectors, then all of the hidden spare sectors on the drive have already been used while the drive's firmware silently remapped bad sectors to those hidden spare sectors. In other words, this drive is going to completely fail fairly soon -- definitely within the next 6 six months or maybe even tomorrow. I have a stack of such drives on a shelf in my laundry room. All failed rather quickly after initially reporting bad sectors.

Mar, 11/24/2009 - 19:45