hard drive going bad

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December 14th, 2003, 10:50 AM
charlescpc

hard drive going bad

I think my hard drive is going bad. I run some different programs and hear a "clunk" and then everything is all froze up.

So, I'm thinking about getting a good backup just in case. I have a second hard disk I can clear and use for a backup disk. It's smaller but should hold everything.

Question what's a good program to use that will get everything like hidden files. I did a practice run using xcopy but some of the files didn't copy got an access error of some sort.
December 15th, 2003, 06:24 AM
ScorpioIlya

drive image

PowerQuest Drive Image 2002, is something I've used successfully, to clone a failing hard drive onto another one....all I had to do was run fdisk /mbr afterwards and win2k booted up just fine :)........it even works if the drives are different sizes, u'll just have a partition that's smaller than the whole drive, which you can resize later...
December 15th, 2003, 10:24 AM
mongo69

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Originally Posted by charlescpc

I think my hard drive is going bad. I run some different programs and hear a "clunk" and then everything is all froze up.

So, I'm thinking about getting a good backup just in case. I have a second hard disk I can clear and use for a backup disk. It's smaller but should hold everything.

Question what's a good program to use that will get everything like hidden files. I did a practice run using xcopy but some of the files didn't copy got an access error of some sort.

I have used powerquests DriveImage before with alot of luck in an industrial environment but the only problem I have had with it was that for some reason when I imaged a drive everything would work fine but M$ Word would be corrupted and would not work. Nothing I did would fix it either. Now I use Norton ghost it is the best in my opinion.
December 15th, 2003, 10:39 AM
TripleRLtd

Another vote for Ghost, although depending on the particulars, it may not ghost to a smaller drive.
PS
HDD clunking? You better do this real quick.https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gif
December 15th, 2003, 10:37 PM
Cyphrr

Norton Ghost all the way. :thumbs2: It will copy to a smaller drive as long as the data size is smaller than the destination drive.
December 15th, 2003, 11:45 PM
charlescpc

thanks for the info

Thanks for the info.

I will try and get one that's shareware or free first since I'll probably have only use it one time..

I have to check to see if Norton ghost has a demo that will work.

I looked at several shareware but they want both drives to be the same size.
I can use one that doesnt use all the drive space and reformat it later.

Yea, I heard the computer make a clunk once, but it did it with the same program ( converting dvds to mpeg so I could take em in to work and watch em there). But, I've just heard it again with a different program so the clock's ticking on the drive.
Thanks guys....