Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Crafty on May 19, 2008, 05:24:31 PM
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I have just scan one of my hard drives and found that it has some bad sectors on it. I only use this hard drive to take images of my main windows drive (C: drive) using Norton Ghost. The drive has now been scanned and fixed! I did this using the windows tools. Now I’m worried that this may only be a temporary fix, so a couple of questions:
Do you think I should now start looking for a new hard drive to store these images to?
When a drive starts with these bad sectors, is it a sign your hard drive is on its way out.
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A couple of thoughts on this.
A brand new HDD from the factory if run a full diagnostics test will show up bad sectors...it's not neccessarily an indication of overall HDD health.
If the drive itself is operating properly and has no issues it could be fine for 3 years or could fail in a month. This is the nature of HDD's and their finicky status.
If you are using that drive only for Ghost images 2 things to consider:
1) Don't defrag and/or run diagnostics too often or you risk screwing up your image files as they HATE that procedure...
2) you really should be burning those images to CD/DVD after they've been verified as valid.
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I used another hard drive for these images because my windows drive has 232 GB used. Interesting point you make about “Defrag.” I’ll not be using defrag on these Image drives anymore.......Come to think of it. I may have defragged the drive a week before my problems began! One of the bad sectors was found in the ghost image I made. If this is the case, do you think this will be a problem in the future? I have since made a new ghost image using the same drive!!
I have Acronis on my other computer and am able to verify my images, on Norton ghost however I cannot find the verify image. Do you know if Norton includes this? Thanks!
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Depends on what ver. of Ghost you are using...
I was a Ghost user for many years and dropped it as soon as i saw Acronis...suprised you didn't do the same.