I have a secondary (no OS) HDD (320GB) with about 12303124 KB in bad sectors. No really bad data corruption (that I could see was occuring) but to be on the safe side (since this has all my data, not programs) that I should swap out for a new drive. I formatted a brand new 1TB drive and partitioned it to a 300GB active partition and the remaining I left "unused". I then restored using the last recovery point for that drive using the "recover my computer" from Norton Ghost v12.
My question is that after recovering everything looked great... except when Windows ran the consistancy check on re-boot it came up with exactly 12303124 KB of data in bad sectors. Did the restore tag the areas that used to be bad sectors and identify them as bad sectors on the new drive as well? (probably incorrectly.. right?) Should I just use the file restore and just select all files in the baseline backup in order to not bring over all the bad sector tagging from the old drive?
I've also heard that restoring the drive and allowing for resizing the drive will eliminate this as well... is this correct? (However this will result in my drive being 1TB not 300G in size.
I was hoping to limit the use to one area of the drive so if bad sectors DID occur I could create a new partition on the "untouched" (unused) portion of the drive and start again... or doesn't the partitions protect one part of the drive from another in respect to bad sectors...
Thanks in adance for all the help.