My Windows was playing up so I restored it using am image I had created some time ago. Unfortunately Windows is still not working right. I ran some hardware health apps and noticed that the hard disk has some errors. I have some 'reallocated sector' warnings and some 'Current pending sector counts' (sectors waiting to be remapped).
My question is, when I restore a partition with clonezilla, does it take account of bad sectors? I.e. does it avoid the sectors marked as bad and reposition the data on to good sectors, or does it have to place the data exactly where it read it when I did the partition-save? If it is the later I guess I will have to buy a new HDD.
if it is the former, can anyone recomend a good app to fully test the HDD and remapp all bad sectors (linux or windows)?
Thanks.
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The best one
-make a backup of your important data
-replace the old HDD with a new one
-make restoredisk from the old savedisk image (not restoreparts)
The status of your HDD you can see with S.M.A.R.T.
linux: disk tool 'gnome-disk-utility 3.10.0-1ubuntu3' (is installed)
windows: CrystalDiskInfo (or befor chkdsk g: /f [/r] or so )
"does it take account of bad sectors?" -> Not really. The hardware issue won't be handled by Clonezilla (or partclone).
It's recommended to use "ddrescue" or "gddrescue" program to deal with bad blocks.
Steven.
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My Windows was playing up so I restored it using am image I had created some time ago. Unfortunately Windows is still not working right. I ran some hardware health apps and noticed that the hard disk has some errors. I have some 'reallocated sector' warnings and some 'Current pending sector counts' (sectors waiting to be remapped).
My question is, when I restore a partition with clonezilla, does it take account of bad sectors? I.e. does it avoid the sectors marked as bad and reposition the data on to good sectors, or does it have to place the data exactly where it read it when I did the partition-save? If it is the later I guess I will have to buy a new HDD.
if it is the former, can anyone recomend a good app to fully test the HDD and remapp all bad sectors (linux or windows)?
Thanks.
The best one
-make a backup of your important data
-replace the old HDD with a new one
-make restoredisk from the old savedisk image (not restoreparts)
The status of your HDD you can see with S.M.A.R.T.
linux: disk tool 'gnome-disk-utility 3.10.0-1ubuntu3' (is installed)
windows: CrystalDiskInfo (or befor chkdsk g: /f [/r] or so )
You can look for 'Any preliminary considerations' too in
http://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Help/thread/91414a5a/
(Unable to find target partition)
"does it take account of bad sectors?" -> Not really. The hardware issue won't be handled by Clonezilla (or partclone).
It's recommended to use "ddrescue" or "gddrescue" program to deal with bad blocks.
Steven.