I have ghost 9, win2000 pro. on a dell latitude laptop. Nice hitachi 7200 rpm drive.. System started hanging up. Installed my spare ghosted drive so I could boot, reformatted the problem drive with ntfs (same format as ghosted drive), then copied from the ghosted drive back to the hitachi.. Installed the hitachi, did fdisk /mbr.. system booted but still hangs at various points. One point being trying to run antivirus. It even hangs on a quick scan. So I am thinking I have some bad sectors on this otherwise quick drive and am going to reformat, do a chkdsk and see if it marks sectors bad. Then I want to copy the drive again..
I read that older versions of ghost had a command line option -bfc to skip bad sectors on the desination drive. Since this not available in ghost 9.. my question again....
Will ghost 9 recognize sectors marked as bad on the destination drive during the copy operation?
If not, then what to do? I bought the ghost product for 1 specific purpose... to be able to swap out my drive after a catastrophic failure. Installing the OS from scratch with all the patches, then all of my applications is way too time consumimg..
Thanks in advance.