Bad sectors on source disk

[Ron Murray]

I'm trying to use clonezilla live 1.2.6-40-i686 on an XP laptop, whose boot partition (sda1) has a few bad sectors (according to chkdsk). Since this is an old laptop and the original install disks (OS and software) disappeared long ago, I'm reduced to trying to to clone the old drive to a new one.
Using clonezilla to perform this task, however, fails miserably. It doesn't matter whether I use image mode or device mode, I get lots of disk errors, including

Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 1821604
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 1821605
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 1821606
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 1821607

These lines, and the associated errors (with the same block numbers) loop endlessly, and I need to use control-C to stop it. I've tried using rescue mode and the -q2 switch, and it doesn't help. I've even tried the 'USE_NTFSCLONE_IN_OCS_ONTHEFLY="yes" + USE_PARTCLONE_IN_OCS_ONTHEFLY="no" ' solution as noted in
steven_shiau's post on 2010-01-19 03:44:50 EST, but that doesn't make any difference either.
As far as I can see, the few bad sectors on this disk don't affect any important files, so if I can get past these errors I might actually have a useable disk. Is there any reason that clonezilla keeps trying to read the same sectors, rather than just giving up and returning a blank sector? Is there anything I can do to get past this point?

Thanks,

…..Ron

[Steven Shiau]

You might be able to enter expert mode, and check the option "-rescue". This might work.
However, I believe ddrescue or gddrescue command (it is included in Cloniezilla live, too) is a better choice.

Steven.

[Anonymous]

I had the same problem as rjmx describes and I was able to successfully clone the disk by using the -rescue and -fsck-src-part-y options.