[ale] NTFSclone, and disk errors.

[zeb]

On Tuesday 08 December 2009 15:01:45 david w. millians wrote:
> I'm trying to dupe a disk with ntfsclone onto a bigger hard drive. (Via
> CloneZilla or SystemRescueCD/Gparted, but same core issue.)
>
> When it reaches a particular spot, it crashes. It does this even with
> the '-rescue' tag on. So fine; run a program, scan the disk, have it
> mark the sector bad, and have ntfsclone ignore it.
>
> Would that it were this simple. chkdsk doesn't do it right, the disk
> checker from fujitsu doesn't do it right. What is there out there that
> will do this the right way so that ntfsclone will do its magic?
>
> May I suggest "SpinRite" from Gibson Research?  Check with Mike Warfield 
first or operate on a clone--just to be paranoid.

Regards, Zeb