{"id":1359,"date":"2015-03-22T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T21:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2015-03-22T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T21:42:29","slug":"can-i-still-make-an-image-copy-of-my-system-drive-if-i-have-bad-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/can-i-still-make-an-image-copy-of-my-system-drive-if-i-have-bad-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Can i still make an image copy of my system drive if i have bad sectors?"},"content":{"rendered":"

YES<\/h1>\n

with Macrium Reflect, my favorite disk imaging program.<\/a> (I pay for it, cuz the free ones are too risky \/ unsupported, and it’s too important to risk.)<\/p>\n

First, you should run chkdsk<\/a>, perhaps 2 or even 3 times. This can take an hour or more to run. This may mask bad sectors<\/a> so Macrium Reflect can finish.<\/p>\n

Note it would be helpful after restoring to a new drive to run chkdsk \/b to re-evaluate those bad sectors, cuz on the new disk, there are none (or at least fewer, we hope, but certainly different<\/em> ones).<\/p>\n

If\u00a0chkdsk<\/a> doesnt fix ’em, there is an option in Advanced called “Ignore bad sectors when creating images”<\/p>\n

\"Reflect_defaults\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Reference: v5: Imaging disks with bad sectors in the Macrium Reflect KnowledgeBase<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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