How to use Gparted to copy a partition with bad sectors to a new hard drive?

aarcov · 08-14-2012, 03:35 PM

I am trying to copy a windows partition to a new harddrive (from a linux machine that will now be set up for dual-boot) with Gparted, but have been unable to do so since the harddrive has one bad sector. Is there a way to force it to copy it to the new harddrive?

jefro · 08-14-2012, 04:43 PM

You can try it.
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/03/cop...-with-gparted/

I don't know that I would fool with it. You won't get a good copy if you already know the drive is bad.

Some people might use dd with option to ignore error or ddrescue or I forget the other one (maybe gdd or something.)

Not sure what clonezilla would do on it.

Sidicas · 08-15-2012, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by aarcov

I am trying to copy a windows partition to a new harddrive (from a linux machine that will now be set up for dual-boot) with Gparted, but have been unable to do so since the harddrive has one bad sector. Is there a way to force it to copy it to the new harddrive?

I'm pretty sure Clonezilla would be the way to go there... You should be able to identify and work-around the bad sector by running an fsck with -c. If it's a failing hard drive, this could cause more sectors to fail though.

TobiSGD · 08-15-2012, 03:53 AM

I would neither use GParted nor Clonezilla here. I would use a tool that is specifically designed for such a case, like ddrescue.

But as jefro already stated, It would be better to make a fresh install of Windows on the new disk, since the old installation may already be damaged.