hi people
please help!
I recently had to rerplace my hard drive because my 250GB one died,, from over 100gb going bad, eg bad blocks/sectors
i had a clone (norton ghost) that i made before it was bad, that i cloned to a NEW (brand new - retail packaged) seagate 160GB hard drive... i used a clone instead of insttaling windows from fresh because i have a lot of work on it, and a lot of complex programs instaled that i dont want to re instal and re do the settings etc
anyway the point is that all of a sudden i did a scan disk of my new 160gb hd to check its ok... and i found about 20gb of bad blocks....
now the question is, when i replace th hd, its under warranty, could i just clone th 160gb hd to a new one, will it clone over th bad block? i guess (hope) not...... it has marked them as bad, and windows etc is all running fine. so in theory i just clone it to a new (good) HD and it is al fine,.,,,, right?

cheers for your help in advance
HOOD

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HOOD

well if the files thats in the bad sectors still somehow works then i guess u'll be find.....

but if they're not accessable and stuff, they won't much use in the new hdd either.
if thats the case u'r better a reinstalling everything from the start.....even though u don't wan't to.....after u can just copy all the work and stuff from the hdd with bad sectors to the new one....

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