bad sectors

Those apps work by making a exact copy of your partition of harddisk. So if you have a bad sector it will make that sector unreadeble on the destination hd, even if that harddisk is good. You have to check with the software maker of the program you are going to use. It's a much asked question and they should have worked on that in the newer versions, so you wont lose any sectors just because you made a clone of a harddisk that happened to have some bad sectors.

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Before you use Ghost, use Norton Disk Doctor. It'll move the data it can off of the bad sectors and into known good ones, and update the FAT to reflect the change. Any data it can't move is lost anyway. Then, when you use Ghost, it won't matter if the sector is marked unreadable, as there won't be any data on those sectors to begin with.

You could try some software like "Tiramisu" which you should be able to find on the NET it allows you to try the program first to see what it can recover - then if you think it worth while on what it recovers you can register your software and copy what it has recovered. It can even recover deleted and parts of overwritten files.

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