I'm using an HP Pavillion with win 7 and a 1T seagate HDD. Last week, I started getting warnings at startup of imminent HDD failure. The system still boots and runs, though slowly.
I got Ghost 15 and a new drive, with the plan of cloning the old one. Ghost installed fine, but didn't recognize the second drive until I formatted it. I then ran the clone program and it crapped out almost immediately. I ran it again with the following options checked: ignore bad sectors, set drive active for booting OS, and copy MBR. It chugged away for about 3 hours. When it was 99% done, it gave me a failure message that said there was an I/O device error. I ran it again and the same thing happened. I ran the ghost diagnostics, including the option to fix bad sectors on the original drive, and tried a third time. Same result--failure due to I/O device when 99% done.
Then I tried using the backup function, burning everything to a third drive. Once that was done, I put the new drive into the computer, booted from the CD, and went through the "restore my computer" sequence. This ran for about 10 hours, then failed. Sorry, but I don't have the fail code.
I downloaded the Ghost program, so I don't have an owner's manual. I''ve read some other posts and I guess maybe I didn't set things up properly for the cloning process (apparently you're not supposed to format the new drive). Still, it seems like the errors are coming from the source disk rather than the destination disk, so I don't know if there's any point in trying again. Any advice wuld be appreciated.