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Bit of a techie Qu...
If I were to ghost a drive that had bad sectors that I think is on the way out, would the replica be functionally swappable and behave like a new drive but with an identical image?
i.e. it would have no physical problems, just suffer from any data loss that the original drive suffers from - and OS/Apps etc would all run as if it were an authentic build?
And any ghosting application recommendations?
If the original drive is readable,then yes - else google for SpinRite by GRC might get you out of a hole re: bad sectors.
Lots of free ghosting packages out there, GParted Live ISO usually pops up first. If the drive is BitLockered you'd need to decrypt first which might be a problem on a dodgy disk too.
cheers.
Vista seems to have managed to fix much of the holes in the data, and Outlook has managed to repair it's PST. But the bad sectors are causing the OS to run flakily (technical term), Im thinking it's having problems writing/reading over the bad sectors. So if I can ghost it before it dies, I can swap the HDD back in and not have to rebuild the PC from scratch.